Comments on: Irrational and Transcendental Number Fun for Pi Day: Pi Dice Game

By: Erica

Erica — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 02:47:35 +0000

In reply to Andrew Smith. Thanks for sharing your ideas about Pi games. Have a great Pi Day!

By: Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 19:25:50 +0000

In reply to Andrew Smith. One more thought about pi as I was walking away from my phone not related to dice. Pi poker, not so much a poker game but a draw and discard game with a shared ante pot in the middle. Everyone puts in three tokens for the sake of pi, is dealt five cards, and then gameplay begins with drawing and discarding until one has accumulated a three two aces a four and a five. and I suppose as a second best hand or equivalent hand two aces a four a five and a nine. First to accumulate the first five digits of pi wins the pot.

By: Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:42:48 +0000

In reply to Andrew Smith. Just a thought as I walked away from my phone. me and my kids like to play Texas farkle which uses an exponential multiplier with every duplication of a number. So with the pie bonus one could multiply his current score by 3.14 that would be a game changer.

By: Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:39:54 +0000

Into the pi dice game that you have mentioned here, I think it would be a great bonus score for farkle. It already contains three numbers necessary for a basic score. Two ones and a five which would be 250 points in farkle. if the player was also to roll a three and a four in conjunction with the two ones and a five it could be scored as a pi bonus say worth an additional 300 points or something I don't know. 250 plus the 300 making it 550 points. or for the sake of pi just make it 314 points instead of 250.

By: Erica

Erica — Wed, 27 May 2020 15:15:40 +0000

In reply to johnhenry. I hope the students enjoy it!

By: johnhenry

johnhenry — Sun, 24 May 2020 12:53:14 +0000

Argh! That should be "ago", not "a go" in my posting above.

By: johnhenry

johnhenry — Sun, 24 May 2020 12:43:31 +0000

This is great; thanks! I'm going to share it with my school's math teacher for the next "pi day". A lot of our students will really get into it. On a semi-related note, not so long a go, a friend described his experience with navigating a telephone menu as "entering all the digits of pi".