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Re:Show HN: Ship Investor game: Practise your bet sizing int... by kqr on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:52PM (#26338774)
You can compete against friends by all using the same seed. Add ?seed=123 to the URL for that.

I quickly hacked this together to use as a starting point for a presentation/discussion on bet sizing with my coworkers. I'm sure there are a lot of flaws, but when even my wife tried and found it hard to stop playing, I figured someone on here might enjoy it too.

The narrative for the game is strongly inspired by Bernoulli's 1734 paper where he solves this type of bet sizing riddle.

Re:Show HN: Ship Investor game: Practise your bet sizing int... by 2malaq on Thursday March 04, 2021 @05:57PM (#26349702)
?seed=666

12 x max bet gets you a nice starting capital ;)

Re:Show HN: Ship Investor game: Practise your bet sizing int... by atatomir on Thursday March 04, 2021 @04:21PM (#26348526)
This game is addictive! Good job!