Tag: tower-rule
Interview Questions
- A rumor that each person passes to 1.5 others
- Children and grandchildren in a random family tree
- Total bacteria over three generations of splitting
- Claims in a quiet or busy month, each with a cost
- An amoeba that dies, stays, or splits each minute
- A stock that rises or falls each day for a week
- A colony that booms or shrinks each generation
- A savings balance with a random yearly growth factor
- A rumor's loudness scaled by a die each round
- Money tripled or halved by a coin, three rounds
- A die sets the range for your next pick
- Three shrinking uniform draws on the unit interval
- A value repeatedly replaced by a smaller random one
- A first pick sets the ceiling for the second
- Three nested random picks, each capped by the last
- One reroll on an eight-sided die, played optimally
- One reroll on a twenty-sided die, played optimally
- Keep a drawn card or redraw once, played optimally
- Keep a spin or respin once on the unit dial
- Keep your die roll or reroll once, played optimally
- Pick a coin from a mixed bag, then flip ten times
- Random defect rate, then inspect twelve items
- A die picks the bias, then eight flips
- Each archer's accuracy is random, then sixteen shots
- A coin of random bias, then twenty flips
- Draw a count, then flip that many coins
- Spin for a count, then deal that many cards
- Two dice set the count, then draw that many tickets
- A random number of apples, each of random weight
- Random number of dice, then their total
- Earn pips on every roll until a six appears
- A random number of customers, each an average spend
- A cat's nightly catch of mice
- Non-red gumballs score points until a red one
- Heads earn card draws until the first tail
- A fair or a loaded die, chosen by a coin
- Three routes to work with different travel times
- Grab an apple or a banana from the basket
- Which salesperson takes the call sets the sale
- Which wheel you spin sets your payout