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Apparently everyone hates Keno

TnopheliaTnophelia
edited 2011-03-01 20:20:35 in Wonderful posts
After crunching some numbers, the results of winning a game of Keno come out like this.

Hits     Odds
0     1 in 843.380 (0.11857057%)
1     1 in 86.446 (1.15678605%)
2     1 in 20.115 (4.97142576%)
3     1 in 8.009 (12.48637168%)
4     1 in 4.877 (20.50318987%)
5     1 in 4.287 (23.32807380%)
6     1 in 5.258 (19.01745147%)
7     1 in 8.826 (11.32954556%)
8     1 in 20.055 (4.98618021%)
9     1 in 61.420 (1.62814048%)
10     1 in 253.801 (0.39401000%)
11     1 in 1,423.822 (0.07023351%)
12     1 in 10,968.701 (0.00911685%)
13     1 in 118,084.920 (0.00084685%)
14     1 in 1,821,881.628 (0.00005489%)
15     1 in 41,751,453.986 (0.00000240%)
16     1 in 1,496,372,110.872 (0.00000007%)
17     1 in 90,624,035,964.712
18     1 in 10,512,388,171,906.553
19     1 in 2,946,096,785,176,811.500
20     1 in 3,535,316,142,212,173,800.000

In other words, you have less of a chance of winning Keno as you do winning two games of Blackjack.

But since you people don't gamble, and just sit on the computer all day, this will become, A SNOWCLONE

Comments

  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    Y-Y-Y-Y-YES
  • inkblotinkblot
    000
    That's nice.
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    No it's not Bloodpouch/Harmatanne/Signal Teeth
  • NoimportaNoimporta
    One of those things is not like the others.
  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    I'm reading a book about a real guy who actually gambled. Does that count?
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    YES
  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    It's odd, really. Normally I feel more sympathetic to people with addictions after reading their lurid tales, but the farther I get in this thing, the more I feel like he's a garden variety impulsive idiot.
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    That's what addictions do to you. Back when I was addicted to Yugioh, I destroyed a relationship because I cared more about tournaments and Judgment Dragon than them.

    My mentality was "At least Yugioh makes me happy."
  • BastionBastion
    smote
    I know it's just a figure of speech, but "garden variety impulsive idiot" is an amusing mental image. With plenty of water and sunshine, you too can grow morons in your own backyard.
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    ^ Win.png
  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    At least this book has sleepwalking murder to spice up the old grind of horse race betting.
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    chapter grinding sucks almost as level grinding.
  • NyarlyNyarly
    Likes cheesecake unironically.
    Of course I hate Keno! Fuck that guy game.

    ...What is Keno anyway?
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    It's a gambling game where you bet money on an assortment of numbers 1 - 40/60/80. The less numbers you choose, the more credits you earn, so if you choose all 20/20 you are allowed, the credits you win won't be worth as much, but say you choose 5/20 numbers you are allowed, you earn a multiplier of credits (they differ from place to place).
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    Then the machine randomly selects 20 numbers, and the more numbers that hit the ones you choose, the more money  you get. Most of the time it doesn't count if only 2 or less numbers of yours are chosen though.
  • Trash_VortexTrash_Vortex
    I don't gamble, but I do flirt with disaster.
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    Do you put out?
  • Trash_VortexTrash_Vortex
    edited 2011-03-02 15:04:24
    Hah, "Putting out with disaster".

    The wording suggests that would probably be a bad thing...

    If skating is flirting with disaster, putting out for disaster would be a groin to the grindrail
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    And then you catch HIV
  • RaddRadd
    Not really, from my personal experience, Disaster is clean.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]
    edited 2012-07-22 16:55:34

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  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    edited 2011-03-11 21:15:59
    Nah, it's okay. A long time ago, in 2009, I was dating this guy who liked Yugioh, and he got me into it, and I found the Lightsworn deck. It was composed of things like this, this and this.

    I thought they were amazing looking, and to my benefit, it was one of the most strongest decks that year, so I quickly got addicted and started spending all of my time and money at the card shops and trading circuits trying to get a good deck of lightsworn. Eventually I started to get better than my boyfriend, and it made him insecure because I was getting more wins than him in tournies. Eventually we would bicker because I was running a "lucksack deck" that didn't take any effort or strategy. Soon enough, we finally got paired against each other in one tournament for the win, and I steamrolled his deck and totally killed him in around 3 turns. Eventually he went into a hyperbolic rage, got pissed and grabbed my deck and threw it across the room and called me a retarded bitch and my deck was noobish garbage. He stormed out and left.

    Soon enough I was getting kicked out of the apartment and quickly had to find my own. He kept all my clothes, manga and cards except my Lightsworn Deck, and I went off to find another apartment after that. As much as it sucked I was able to recover and not end up homeless. I should've cared about that more, but I was too fixated on Yugioh and didn't care about anything else except for base survival and finding cards to replace the ones that got bent when he threw the deck. Eventually after completing my deck I recovered from my unhealthy fixation and got better.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]
    edited 2012-07-22 16:55:40

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