On the Chances of Completing the Game of "Perpetual Motion"

Details On the Chances of Completing the Game of "Perpetual Motion" On the Chances of Completing the Game of "Perpetual Motion"

2009-07-11

arxiv.org/abs/0907.1955v1

Computer Science

Computer Science and Game Theory

3 pages, 3 figures

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This brief paper describes the single-player card game called "Perpetual Motion" and reports on a computational analysis of the game's outcome. The analysis follows a Monte Carlo methodology based on a sample of 10,000 randomly generated games. The key result is that 54.55% +/- 0.89% of games can be completed (by a patient player!) but that the remaining 45.45% result in non-terminating cycles. The lengths of these non-terminating cycles leave some outstanding questions.

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