be any of the 48 remaining cards.
I've never played this game, but I don't mind procrastinating for 5 minutes.
Off the top of my head. The number of quick quads is:
2: 4 * 6 (four ways to have trip 2's times six ways to have AA)
3: 4 * 16 (sixteen ways for A2)
4: 4 * (16 + 6) (sixteen ways for A3 and six ways for 22)
5: 4 * (16 + 16) (sixteen ways for 23 and sixteen ways for A4)
6: 4 * (16 + 16 + 6) (24, A5 and 33)
7: 4 * (16 + 16 + 16) (34, 25, A6)
8: 4 * (16 + 16 + 16 + 6) (35, 26, A7, 44)
9: 4 * (16 + 16 + 16 + 16) (45, 36, 27, A8)
10: 4 * (16 + 16 + 16 + 16 + 6) (46, 37, 28, A9, 55)
Sum them up you get:
4 * (6*5 + 16*20) = 1400 quick quad combos
This is in addition to the 13 * 48 = 624 standard quad combos
This would make quads on QQ machines roughly 3.25x more likely. Wizard of
odds quotes 2.7x so I probably messed up somewhere, though... :)
Ed
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:22 PM, <coachvee@aol.com> wrote:
> **
>
>
> Hi Gang:
> A friend recently asked me an interesting question and I thought I'd put
> it
> out on these boards to see if the math experts out there could possibly
> answer it for us.
> We all know that there are 13 possible ways to be dealt a four-of-a-kind
> in
> a non-wild game such as JOB, BP or DDB etc.
> But, this friend, Hedy and I have been dabbling lately in Quick Quads
> (Harrah's AC has one 50-play and one 100-play machine at the 1-cent,
> 2-cent,
> nickel and quarter levels). His question to me was: "How many ways are
> there
> to be dealt a four-of-a-kind in Quick Quads when playing a non-wild game?"
> Good question, I said. I didn't have the answer, of course. Does anyone
> out
> there know?
> Thanks for your help.
> Regards,
> CoachVee & Hedy
>
>
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