Weekend gaming -- new entries at You Do the Math
West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more) 2013-03-29
I've got three big ongoing threads planned for my teacher support blog, one on the SAT and one on a special class of manipulatives, and one on teaching programming, so naturally I've been avoiding those topics and writing about games instead: If you also have an interest in games and work to avoid, you might drop by and check out: The Exact Chaos Game -- fleshing out a suggestion by John D. Cook, this lets players bet on iterations of a surprisingly unpredictable function. Kriegspiel and Dark Chess -- more Wikipedia than me but worth checking out if you'd like to see what chess might look like as a game of imperfect information. Facade Chess -- along the same lines, here's an "original" imperfect-information variant where a subset of the pieces may be disguised as other pieces.