Tag: optimal-stopping
Interview Questions
- Spin a dial with two re-spins, price the game
- One re-roll, but the re-roll costs you
- Roll three times, keep the best, price it
- Two dice, one re-roll of both, price the sum
- Die with up to two re-rolls, price the game
- Roll a die with two re-rolls allowed, price it
- Re-roll the die, but it costs you a dollar
- Roll a 20-sided die, keep it or re-roll once
- Two dice, keep the sum or re-roll both once
- Roll a die, keep it or re-roll once, what's it worth?
- Ten-sided die, pay two dollars to re-roll
- Spin for a uniform payout, pay to re-spin
- Roll a die with at most two free re-rolls
- How pricey must a re-roll be before you never bother?
- Roll a die, keep it or pay to re-roll, what's it worth?
- Best-of-five, the secretary cutoff
- The 37% rule for apartment hunting
- Three draws, keep the most value
- Two numbers, keep the larger
- Pick the highest card, the secretary problem
- Two faces bust you now
- The fixed-jackpot slot, press your luck
- Double or nothing, when do you walk away?
- When the biggest face is the trap
- Keep rolling or bank it, the greedy pig game
- A die game with two rerolls
- Reroll on a twenty-sided die
- A reroll that costs a dollar
- Paid the square of your die roll
- Fair value of a die game with one reroll
- Eight-sided die with two rerolls
- Ten-sided die with one reroll
- Unlimited rerolls, but each one costs you
- Two rerolls, but each reroll costs a dollar
- Die game with two rerolls