What’s the solution?

• Ginsberg implemented brilliantly simple idea

• Pretend we do know the location of cards

  • by dealing them out at random

• Find best play with this known position of cards

  • score initial move by expected score of hand

• Repeat a number of times (e.g. 50, 100)

• Pick out move which has best average score

• This is called the “Monte Carlo” method

  • standard name in many areas where random data is generated to simulate real data