Comments on: your odds of winning $1,000,000 by playing plinko http://www.coreyhulse.com/2008/07/25/your-odds-of-winning-1000000-by-playing-plinko/ a blog about food, video games, day trips, and photography Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:17:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Quixzotek http://www.coreyhulse.com/2008/07/25/your-odds-of-winning-1000000-by-playing-plinko/comment-page-1/#comment-49007 Quixzotek Thu, 26 May 2011 15:00:11 +0000 http://www.coreyhulse.com/?p=135#comment-49007 I have a question for you. I was at a casino the other day and a lady had won a chance to win money at Plinko. I was helping her decide where to drop from, moving her left and right to what I felt was the highest probability area. There were 9 chips given to her in a 9 slot board. The middle slot was $2,500, the two on either side was $1,000, then out from there was $500, then out from there $300, then the two corners were $200. So, the idea in this particular game was you won the money the chip dropped in until you hit the same slot twice. The total would be added and you would win that. If somehow you put a chip in every slot perfect you would win $25,000. Well, she watched me guide her the whole way, moving her inches left or right. She would place the chip above the board and I'd guide her until she had the position I wanted. Well, the plan was going well until finally she had one chip left and all slots were perfect. I looked at her, she was about to drop and I moved her about 2 inches to the left. She was already guaranteed $6,000, but this final dropped chip could win her $25,000. Well, she dropped it where I told her and it clinked down left, then right and guess what, fell right into the final slot and she won $25,000. The bad news is she only gave me $100 for my instructions. She had no clue what she was doing and I felt like $500-$1,250 was more appropriate. But, nevertheless, my question is this as I can't find the answer. With a 9 slot Plinko game with 9 chips to drop, what are the odds of filling all the slots perfectly, one into each? Please send the answer to my email as I'm very curious to know. The casino manager had told me she was the first one to ever accomplish that feat in the 6 years of their existence! I have a question for you. I was at a casino the other day and a lady had won a chance to win money at Plinko. I was helping her decide where to drop from, moving her left and right to what I felt was the highest probability area. There were 9 chips given to her in a 9 slot board. The middle slot was $2,500, the two on either side was $1,000, then out from there was $500, then out from there $300, then the two corners were $200. So, the idea in this particular game was you won the money the chip dropped in until you hit the same slot twice. The total would be added and you would win that. If somehow you put a chip in every slot perfect you would win $25,000. Well, she watched me guide her the whole way, moving her inches left or right. She would place the chip above the board and I’d guide her until she had the position I wanted.

Well, the plan was going well until finally she had one chip left and all slots were perfect. I looked at her, she was about to drop and I moved her about 2 inches to the left. She was already guaranteed $6,000, but this final dropped chip could win her $25,000. Well, she dropped it where I told her and it clinked down left, then right and guess what, fell right into the final slot and she won $25,000. The bad news is she only gave me $100 for my instructions. She had no clue what she was doing and I felt like $500-$1,250 was more appropriate. But, nevertheless, my question is this as I can’t find the answer.

With a 9 slot Plinko game with 9 chips to drop, what are the odds of filling all the slots perfectly, one into each? Please send the answer to my email as I’m very curious to know. The casino manager had told me she was the first one to ever accomplish that feat in the 6 years of their existence!

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]]> By: Ben http://www.coreyhulse.com/2008/07/25/your-odds-of-winning-1000000-by-playing-plinko/comment-page-1/#comment-8323 Ben Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:01:45 +0000 http://www.coreyhulse.com/?p=135#comment-8323 As someone who's not particularly impressed by Plinko and has only watched about four games played, I'm surprised you missed a very common feature - in at least two of the vids I watched, at one point in the drop the disc scooted left or right by two pins in one row. I'm not sure how this affects the maths since I suppose it could happen in either direction, but it certainly complicates things. Also, it may be the limited sample that I'm seeing, but for most of the drop the disc seems to take a regluar left-right-left-right pattern, possibly due to being slightly smaller than the holes? That would certainly make the centre more favourable, but I suppose it's well into the realms of asking a physicist since you have to consider how much of a fall is needed to reach a speed where it can jump out of that rhythm. As someone who’s not particularly impressed by Plinko and has only watched about four games played, I’m surprised you missed a very common feature – in at least two of the vids I watched, at one point in the drop the disc scooted left or right by two pins in one row. I’m not sure how this affects the maths since I suppose it could happen in either direction, but it certainly complicates things.
Also, it may be the limited sample that I’m seeing, but for most of the drop the disc seems to take a regluar left-right-left-right pattern, possibly due to being slightly smaller than the holes? That would certainly make the centre more favourable, but I suppose it’s well into the realms of asking a physicist since you have to consider how much of a fall is needed to reach a speed where it can jump out of that rhythm.

]]> By: jerricka http://www.coreyhulse.com/2008/07/25/your-odds-of-winning-1000000-by-playing-plinko/comment-page-1/#comment-5322 jerricka Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:57:23 +0000 http://www.coreyhulse.com/?p=135#comment-5322 This is just ridiculous. How long did it take to calculate? This is just ridiculous. How long did it take to calculate?

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