![]() Then if the card you’ve cut is higher than the card the other fellow has cut, you win. You cut a card, if you see what I mean, and the other fellow cuts a card, if you follow me. In its essentials it is not unlike Blind Hooky. But for our purposes, it’s important to know that several of the key plot twists revolve around substantial sums of money gambled on Persian Monarchs, described by one character thus: ![]() ![]() The plot of the novel is complex and not really to the point for a statistics blog, so do yourself a favour and read it for yourself in your own time. Wodehouse was in true mid-season form with this, his first full length novel featuring “ Uncle Fred” (Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, 5th Earl of Ickenham) before much of his work became tired and formulaic in the post-WWII years. Wodehouse for his classic 1939 comedic novel Uncle Fred in the Springtime, surely a front runner for some of the best humorous writing of the twentieth century. As far as I can tell, this game was invented by P. Now I want to explore this last idea further with the fictional game Persian Monarchs. The main aim of that post was to show how even simple probabilistic games can become complicated with tweaks to the rules, but I also mentioned a key concept that “any game of chance can be converted to a complex game of skill by adding gambling”. In a recent post I simulated some simple dice games and promised (or threatened) that this was the first of a series of posts about games of combined luck and chance.
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