Advice you would give to Gambling Newbies? :)

[Garnabby]

Art Benjamin, Harvey Mudd College

The BINGO Paradox

Paradoxically, when a large number of people play BINGO, it is much more probable that the
winning card has a horizontal BINGO instead of a vertical BINGO. We prove this result in the
asymptotic case that when every possible BINGO card is being used, then horizontal wins beat
vertical wins by a better than 3-to-1 margin.

[Tasha]

The Bingo sequence numbers on the Bingo I turned in didn't match that day's Bingo sequence numbers. So that's how Player's Club Staff Members found out I was using old Bingo cards that already previously lost. :/

Didn't it occur to you that they'd look at the sequence numbers to verify a card's legitimacy?

An easy tell...

No, because I only thought of the fact that the Bingo cards weren't dated. And I had already gotten away with winning by using old Bingo cards that already previously lost, so I had no reason to think that the $600 win on a Bingo card that had already previously lost would be any different.

[DGenBen]

Art Benjamin, Harvey Mudd College

The BINGO Paradox

Paradoxically, when a large number of people play BINGO, it is much more probable that the
winning card has a horizontal BINGO instead of a vertical BINGO. We prove this result in the
asymptotic case that when every possible BINGO card is being used, then horizontal wins beat
vertical wins by a better than 3-to-1 margin.

Whenever I hear or read about Harvey Mudd College, my brain always interprets it initially as Harcourt Fenton Mudd College.