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Lab - Strategy, Probability and the Luck Factor

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Purpose The following lab proposal encompasses the use of the dice in the game of Yahtzee and how the dice rolls are directly related to the strategy, probability and the luck factor in the game. Objectives The conducted experiment will be emphasizing on the importance of the dice roll in the Yahtzee game and how it impacts the outcome of the game. This lab will be limited to show the results obtained using single and double dice rolls and will be discussing the outcomes of the single and double dice rolls. Background Theory Yahtzee is a dice game based on poker made by Milton Bradley (now owned by Hasbro), which was first marketed as "Yatzie" by National Association Service of Toledo, Ohio in the early 1940s. Yatzie was included in a game set called "LUCK - 15 Grand Dice Games". It was marketed under the name of Yahtzee by game entrepreneur  Edwin S. Lowe  in 1956. The game is a development of earlier dice games such as  Yacht, Generala, and  Yogi (Wikipedia). Objective is to score the most points by rolling five dice  to make certain combinations. Each player's turn consists of rolling the dice up to three times in hope of making 1 of 13 categories. Examples of categories are 3 of a kind, 4 of a kind, straight, full house, etc. There are thirteen rounds in a game during which the player chooses which scoring combination is to be used in that round. Once a combination has been used in the game, it cannot be used again. . Each player tries to fill in a score for each category, but this is not always possible. When all players have entered a score or a zero for all 13 categories, the game ends and total scores are compared. There are two sections in the game, upper section and lower section. In the upper section, there are six boxes, each corresponding to one of the six face values of the dice. For these boxes, you enter the sum of the dice with the corresponding face value (and ignore all other dice). In the lower section you ha

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