Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Odds

Here are the odds of being dealt a particular hand in Battle For Souls:

Pair 77.65%
3 different colors 94.31%
different colors 61.81%
different colors 15.24%
2 pair 21.17%
3 of a kind 20.32%
Full House 2.57%
4 of a kind 1.71%
5 of a kind 0.04%


Of course, odds are different if you choose to build your hand by discarding some subset each turn.

There are many wonderful decision points in the game, it's really turning out to be something special.