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Originally Posted by StuckinARutt
If I wanted to make this game more complicated and include Place and Show bets, could my simulation wizards to help me determine the odds of each horse "placing" (1st or 2nd) and "showing" (placing 1st, 2nd or 3rd) working from my above wheel configuration?
For this purpose we can still call the winning horse the one to cross the finish line first, but we can continue to resolve movements from the winning spin (if any).
The other constraints are that the next horse closest to the finish line (or second to cross the line) would come 2nd, the next would come 3rd.
Standard rules for resolving ties. If there are ties for second, there is no 3rd place and all 2nd place finishers "place". If there is only one 2nd place and multiple horses finish 3rd, they are all "place" finishers.
Is this doable?
this is more complicated than just finding the winner. there are more options that can happen with placing. there is only 1 winner, that never changes. but for other colors, what if they have something like [6,6,6,5,..]? or [6,5,5,5,..]? would the order of runners getting to these number of steps matter or not?