Counterfeiter, the card game
- Take one pack of 52 cards
- Separate out 26 cards
Repeatedly
- Shuffle the pack and deal one card
The game finishes when either the first black card has been dealt, the counterfeit has been detected, or a set number of cards have been dealt.
Black cards
Cards dealt
This game implements problem 28, catching the greedy counterfeiter, from Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solutions by Frederick Mosteller.