Counting Your Chickens With Markov Chains. Issue 3 (27th May 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: McCune, David; McCune, Lori
• Is Part Of: Mathematics magazine. Volume 92:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 163
• Page End: 172
• Publication Date: 2019-05-27
• Subjects: MSC: Primary 91A60 -- Secondary 60J10; Mathematics -- Periodicals; 510.5
• DOI: 10.1080/0025570X.2019.1561097
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0025-570X

Abstract

Summary: We use Markov chains to analyze the cooperative children's game, Count Your Chickens! . Similar to Chutes and Ladders or Monopoly, this game involves movement of a token on a game board in which the movement is determined by pure chance. We use Markov chains to determine the win probability for the game and the win probability for variants of the game in which we change the structure of the underlying game board.