I am Matt Busche. I live in Lakewood, Colorado with my wonderful wife Tammy and three fine children Aaron, Becky and Cate. I’m an electrical engineer by education, but worked as a software developer for about 20 years. I recently took a promotion to full time care giver for my kids, but plan to return to the grind once they are older. I coach basketball, sing in two different church choirs, tutor mathematics and physics at a local high school, and spend what other time I can find pursuing home improvement projects and several pet software projects. I can be reached at
Matt,
This is really great…however, my family and I usually only play with five dice. I’m wondering if there is a way to generate a table for such a game. I will check this out further and see if I can gather the data myself to plug it into a spreadsheet…otherwise, any assistance would be appreciated!
You left this comment on my about page, so I’m not sure whether your commenting on my optimal farkle strategy, or max expected score farkle strategy. Todd Neller and I found many different Farkle game variants during our research, but never stumbled upon a version played with 5 dice. Surely it wouldn’t be too hard to modify my software to handle a 5 dice game, but how would you score a 5-die straight? Or is that even worth anything?
If you sent me the specific rules of the game, and told me exactly what you’re looking for, maybe I could email you some results, but I’m not sure I’d want to permanently modify my software to handle this rarely played version of the game.