Comments for DanAllan.com http://www.danallan.com Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:37:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Comment on Couples’ Dreidel by Dan Allan http://www.danallan.com/projects/2011/couples-dreidel/comment-page-1/#comment-13810 Dan Allan Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:37:25 +0000 http://www.danallan.com/?p=1667#comment-13810 Interesting. We allowed people to quit with their winnings at any point, but in practice stubbornness kept everybody in for awhile. Consensus would be a better rule. For the six-sided die Brendan proposed, I find much shorter games overall. Contrary to his expectation, forming couples still shortens games. The benefit of having a team cash reservoir remains significant. No couples: 51 minutes One couple: 45 minutes Two couples: 40 minutes Interesting. We allowed people to quit with their winnings at any point, but in practice stubbornness kept everybody in for awhile. Consensus would be a better rule.

For the six-sided die Brendan proposed, I find much shorter games overall. Contrary to his expectation, forming couples still shortens games. The benefit of having a team cash reservoir remains significant.
No couples: 51 minutes
One couple: 45 minutes
Two couples: 40 minutes

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