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Old 10-05-2007, 10:25 PM
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Maybe you need to take into account that there aren't really 6! possibilities? What I mean is that, a game can be over in as little as 2 draws, and by considering each of the 6! possibilities, many of which would never occur in a real bingo game, you're effectively weighting the probabilities.

Take a game of A vs B, for example. Should we assign equal weight to:
(1,2,3,4,5,6)
(1,2,6,5,4,3) and
(1,6,5,4,3,2)?

Or should we allow for shorter sequences and assign equal weight to:
(1,2) and
(1,6,5)?
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