Thursday, June 29, 2006

It's Just Maths People!

At Trivia at the EBC on Tuesday we play a drinking game called Tits and Arse. Teams stand up, everyone grabs either their Tits or their Arse, Jess tosses a coin ... Heads it's Tits, Tails it's Arse. If you're grabbing the wrong thing, you have to sit down. The last person left standing wins a jug.

OhCharlie and I get very agitated playing this game and I just want to make one thing clear:
It's Just Maths!
At each toos of the coin you have a 50/50 chance of being correct. The dominant strategy for play is to therefore make sure half of your team grab Tits, and the half Arse. This guarantees that at each round you only ever lose half your team.

To demonstrate, I have created a Tits and Arse Simulation.

If you have a maths team playing the numbers, your team size can be HALF the random teams and you will still win around 50% of the time. With two teams the same size, the maths team will win around 70% of the time.

13 comments:

davethescot said...

Don't know if you have noticed this tobytoby, but judging from the tone of this post you have. There is a distinct majority of teams who all pick the same body part to grab, I watch from the stage in sheer exasperation.

_nothing_ said...

Oh yes, it drives me mental!

davethescot said...

I just noticed you had an ad for the empress for the Nick Lovell gig a while back, thank you .

Bonnie Conquest said...

ohhh i love youse geeks!

ps. was charlie very drunk....?

_nothing_ said...

Charlie was apparently VERY drunk. Now he's sick.

I keep being unjustly villified for 'encouraging' everyone to drink more. Apparently, ~I~ was the one respnsible for our sojourn at Cafe Romantica, despite the fact it wasn't my idea.

dave: no problems, I have a very soft spot for the accordion ...

mskp said...

it's part of your cunning to wait until a ludicrous suggestion is made, before throwing the full weight of your support behind it, tobytoby.

but charlie may be referring to the series of pots that materialised in front of him BEFORE we left the b-east...

Fluffy said...

Out of 1000 starts, the non-maths team win 307 jugs and the maths team win 693. The numbers don't lie.

mskp said...

tobytoby, you realise you've just given the advantage to our opponents...

*shakes head and exhales loudly*

*breaks open the clausewitz*

_nothing_ said...

I presume they don't read my blog. And of those that do both read the blog and play trivia, they're pretty smart and would surely have worked this out.

It's not ALL about war though.*

And I just realised that making you read Clausewitz's
epic, On War was a strategic error.

* It is.

Bonnie Conquest said...

You MADE her read it?!

Rach said...

Hey, Toby, what's your email address?

Come join the food orgy!

http://zarathustra-bakes.blogspot.com/

Unknown said...

They have the same thing at the Nash trivia night on mondays except its called Knobs and Knockers.

I will employ your strategy next time the crew and I get our trivia on.

Mel said...

Sorry to keep stooging your blog with trivia-related... trivia, but I can't resist adding my own personal theory:

Jess throws retarded and always seems to bring up arse.

I used this theory to win the jug a couple of weeks back when my team had merely two people and the other member was eliminated after the first toss.