According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, the numbers have been crunched, and a game of Monopoly has a 12% chance of never ending:
Anybody who has ever played Monopoly knows the feeling. The game can be interminable, with no victor ever seeming to emerge.
That's a real mathematical possibility, Cornell University researchers said in a new study. They calculate that there's a 12 percent probability of a simple, two-player game of Monopoly never concluding.
Does this make Monopoly an even more quintessentially American game?
Thanks to Purple Pawn for the tip-off.
3 comments:
It totally makes me want to play a game...and let it keep going. Like, play for three hours, come back to it another day for an hour, then three more later in the week...just to see!
I no longer have the stamina to play Monopoly for 3 hours. When I have children, and they want to play this game, I will be enforcing a tournament-standard 90 minute time length. FOR THEIR OWN GOOD.
Where's your determination?? Park Place will be MINE!
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