Tag: Game

Rubik’s Cube – Alternate Visualization

Wordle and Information Theory – Youtube Explains

The point is the pattern with a lot of information is by its very nature unlikely to occur. In fact what it means to be informative is that it’s unlikely.

Wordle – How To Play, Where To Play, Example of play

Goal -> Figure out the word
You get 6 tries
Grey – Letter not in word
Yellow – Letter in word but in wrong place
Green – Letter is where it should be

Play here:
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

10 Chess Openings

6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or “Bacon’s Law” is a parlour game based on the “six degrees of separation” concept, which posits that any two people on Earth are six or fewer acquaintance links apart. Movie buffs challenge each other to find the shortest path between an arbitrary actor and prolific actor Kevin Bacon. It rests on the assumption that anyone involved in the Hollywood film industry can be linked through their film roles to Bacon within six steps. In 2007, Bacon started a charitable organization called SixDegrees.org.

wikipedia

Here’s an example –
Bill Pullman has a Bacon number of 2.

Bill Pullman
was in
A League of Their Own
with
Tracy Reiner
who was in
Apollo 13
with
Kevin Bacon

OracleOfBacon