Skip to main content

Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications

Product ID: Articles
Supplementary Print
Undergraduate

Optimal Klappenspiel

Author: Arthur T. Benjamin and Derek Stanford


The game Klappenspiel (flipping game) is a traditional German game of flipping tiles according to dice rolls. In this paper, we derive the optimal strategy for this game by using dynamic programming. We show that the probability of winning using the optimal strategy is 0.30%.

©1995 by COMAP, Inc.
The UMAP Journal 16.1
10 pages

Mathematics Topics:

Probability

Application Areas:

Game Theory

You must have a Full Membership to download this resource.

If you're already a member, login here.

Not yet a member?