The best games of 1971: Blackjack, Horse Race

Russian translate

Blkjak

Judging by the name, the creators probably hoped to encrypt the gambling. Although the game did not go beyond university computers. Apparently they decided to show off after all, ala is original and not corny.

But as I hope you guessed, this game is a simulation of the blackjack card game.

The casino limit is $ 500, and the limit on winnings is paid with a coefficient of 1.5. In short, as in real life, casinos show themselves to be the most honest and principled projects in the history of all mankind, and possibly the entire visible universe. Or I got carried away.

Well, if you don't know, then the rules here are simple: you have to get as close as possible to the number 21, if you score more points, you automatically lose.

You decide when to stop taking cards if you think that most often you have more points than your opponent, and the risk of scoring more than 21 points is too great. For example, when you have 19 points. That is, you need to strive for a balance between excitement and prudence.

So, you have joined that small cohort of selected representatives of humanity, the intellectual elite that knows these most complicated rules. And now let's move on.

Horse Race

Quite an entertaining game, because it gives you the opportunity to practice your understanding of game theory or probability theory. In the mathematics of these theories.

Do not forget that these games were made not for ordinary players, but for the internal needs of all scientists and students, but to make it more interesting, I took into account ludomaniac tendencies in most representatives of humanity.

Although the game was ported later to the Sol-20 personal computer (1978), but it was not very widespread and its owners were all sorts of nerds among the middle class.

If we proceed to the description of the gameplay, then here you had to calculate the probability of winning horses and, taking this into account, calculate the size of bets and the distribution among bets on other horses.

The results were reported in six stages, with the result after the fifth, where the result of your finances was also shown.

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