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Happy new year HN! My post here analyzes 80,000 simulated games of White Elephant for 2 to 9 players, and finds that it's pretty good at distributing gifts to p
by bobbiechen 3y ago
Happy new year HN! My post here analyzes 80,000 simulated games of White Elephant for 2 to 9 players, and finds that it's pretty good at distributing gifts to people who value them. Source code available here: https://github.com/bobbiec/white-elephant https://github.com/bobbiec/white-elephant
- flappyeagle 3y agoThe core inefficiency of white elephant is the gifts themselves are often not very appealing in the first place — a perfectly distributed set of shit gifts are still shit
- throwup238 3y agoYeah look what happened when Michael Scott forced everyone to play (though he called it Yankee Swap). Everybody hated it! Except Pam and Dwight, but they got Jim's in-joke gift and the brand new iPod respectively.
- realitysballs 3y agoSuch a classic episode