How to Beat the House and Win at Games
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
How to beat the house and win at games. Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by mathematicians Hannah Fry and Alex Bellos, psychologist Richard Wiseman and games enthusiast Helen Zaltzman, to get their top tips for winning games and solving puzzles. Do mathematicians make better Poker players, or is psychology the key to the ultimate poker face? Will a knowledge of probability give you the ultimate winning strategy for your next game of Monopoly? (the answer is yes!). How old are the oldest puzzles and why do they involve wolves and cabbages? And how have puzzles involving wolves, cabbages and bridges resulted in the development of whole new branches of mathematics. PRODUCER: Alexandra Feachem.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Robin Hints. |
| 0:00.8 | Nine brain cocks. |
| 0:01.6 | And this is the Infinite Monk Cage podcast, |
| 0:04.1 | which is a longer version than the one you hear |
| 0:06.1 | broadcast on Radio 4. |
| 0:07.4 | Let me stop you there because you have to define |
| 0:09.0 | what you mean, because it could just be longer |
| 0:10.4 | because you're moving at high speed relative to the listener. |
| 0:14.3 | Oh, yeah, I hadn't really thought of that. |
| 0:15.7 | Well, I suppose longer in terms of the minute measurement, |
| 0:21.2 | is that you get an incredible, |
| 0:22.6 | this is really much harder than I thought. |
| 0:24.4 | You can define it in a particular frame of reference. |
| 0:27.5 | So you can say in this particular frame of reference, |
| 0:29.9 | where the player is at rest relative to the listener, |
| 0:33.6 | then the recording you may have made off the radio |
| 0:37.2 | is shorter than the recording on the podcast. |
| 0:40.9 | Thursday? |
| 0:42.2 | Is that a frame of reference Thursday? |
| 0:44.6 | It's roughly speaking. |
| 0:46.6 | So starting point, isn't it? |
| 0:48.4 | Yeah. |
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