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- Title
Mr. Markov Tours Candy Land.
- Authors
Mack, Kamar; Neyhart, Sam; Shala, Azeez; Stein, Jason; Yunhua Zhao; Zheng, Jeffrey
- Abstract
The article discusses the ,a children's board game, citing mathematical analysis of the game, as of March 2014. It states that the game was marketed in by the firm MiltonBradley in 1945, and has been owned by toy company Hasbro, and mentions that each player in the game follows a path to reach the Candy Castle, wherein each move of a player is determined by the draw of one card from a deck of cards. Topics include analysis of the game using transition matrix and based-probability analysis.
- Subjects
BOARD games; HASBRO Inc.; MILTON Bradley Co.; BOARD gamers; MATRICES (Mathematics); PROBABILITY theory
- Publication
UMAP Journal, 2014, Vol 35, Issue 1, p11
- ISSN
0197-3622
- Publication type
Article