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To: Bonefish who wrote (86640)9/16/2025 10:50:02 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 90403
 
According to the various AI engines, for five games, the answer is somewhere around 99.2%!*

This is a variation of the famous birthday problem: What are the odds of any two people in a random classroom having the same birthday? In a 30 person classroom, the answer is about 44%.

- Jeff

*To see if how true this was, let's look at our picks:

Week 1: Clock and Kenai had the same picks. Bucky and Red as well. Carolyn and I2. You and Nicewatch.
Week 2: Carolyn and EK!!!, You and Bill, Don and Nicewatch.