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Probability Riddle Using Python: To Bet or Not to Bet

 Riddle:

I invite you to play the following card game: Shuffle the ordinary pack of cards and deal them in pairs, face up. If both cards of a pair are black, you get them; if both are red, I get them. Otherwise, the cards are ignored. You pay $1 for the privilege of playing the game. When the deck is exhausted, the game is over, and you pay nothing if you have no more cards than I have. On the other hand, I'll pay you $3 for every card that you have more than I have. Would you care to play with me?


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Riddle source:

https://cambomaths.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/fivehundredmathematicalchallenges.pdf