Preliminary Comments & Questions...
Posted: Mon May 28, 2018 12:40 am
I know comments on the Main Quiz page prior to May 16 were moved to its own section. What happened to all the comments from May 16 - May 27. I had posted the following very recently and which I saw posted on that page earlier today,but I don’t find it anywhere? I had saved my message and am copy pasting it here. Hope someone will respond to it.
Hello,
First of all, thanks for having this site. After playing off and on for about 10 years, I managed to only get 68% on the quiz! :-(
Some preliminary non-question specific inquiries/comments:
1. Are the “Standard Euchre Rules” posted on this site actually documented in a standard book of euchre (by Hoyle?). I like the rules you posted, but experience variations at different tournaments, which can be hard to remember. Some don’t even make sense.
2. The quiz is based on the standard 10 point (or at most 13 point) game, correct? I assume this is the case, since the questions usually (or always?) begin with stating the scores. I realized that this affects the answer... Since some players may have more (recent) experience with playing 2 rounds (or 8 hands per game) with no limit to how much can be scored, do you think it might be helpful to point out the scoring standard from the start?
3. I know that the correct answers are based on consensus opinion from experts (extremely valuable), and I presume these opinions are provable to support the highest percent favorable outcome. But is there a book somewhere that explicitly calculates the mathematical probabilities for different scenarios or at least discusses them mathematically?
Thanks,
Ashis
Hello,
First of all, thanks for having this site. After playing off and on for about 10 years, I managed to only get 68% on the quiz! :-(
Some preliminary non-question specific inquiries/comments:
1. Are the “Standard Euchre Rules” posted on this site actually documented in a standard book of euchre (by Hoyle?). I like the rules you posted, but experience variations at different tournaments, which can be hard to remember. Some don’t even make sense.
2. The quiz is based on the standard 10 point (or at most 13 point) game, correct? I assume this is the case, since the questions usually (or always?) begin with stating the scores. I realized that this affects the answer... Since some players may have more (recent) experience with playing 2 rounds (or 8 hands per game) with no limit to how much can be scored, do you think it might be helpful to point out the scoring standard from the start?
3. I know that the correct answers are based on consensus opinion from experts (extremely valuable), and I presume these opinions are provable to support the highest percent favorable outcome. But is there a book somewhere that explicitly calculates the mathematical probabilities for different scenarios or at least discusses them mathematically?
Thanks,
Ashis