eheisman,
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A few days ago, I did a Monte Carlo simulation of Dreidel in to figure out how long to expect a game to last for a given number of players and "buy in". I had some grand plans to visualize results, which I haven't completed yet.

I did confirm that the average game for 3 players, 7 tokens each, if you aren't playing with edible tokens, will last forever (or at least for adult players it certainly feels that way.)

eheisman,
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Okay, so Wikipedia confirms my rules for when to ante (at least one kids book we have says ante every round, which probably speeds it up.)

Wikipedia also has citations for expected duration of a game, and something else I noticed - an advantage to going first.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreidel

eheisman,
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3 players, buy in of 5 tokens, ante on empty, no tokens consumed during play.

ai6yr,
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@eheisman Hannukah + Math? LOL!

eheisman,
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@ai6yr

I will have to put my code on GitHub.

I was seriously amazed at how many games lasted to the 500 turn limit I put on the simulation.

It goes a lot faster with chocolate gelt than with pennies, as you can decrease the tokens in circulation more easily.

ai6yr,
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@eheisman Hmm, that's a LONG game.

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