Analyzing Uno

Greetings,

I admit it is strange that I am actually taking the time to analyze my (2) 10,000 point Uno games with my kids.  I posted a chart of my lead over time for the game with the daughter and would like now to provide you with some totally unneeded statistics that I am sure you will find of no use.

Margin of Win	Dad	Daughter
1-10 points	42	28
11-25 points	66	53
26-50 points	53	58
51-75 points	24	24
76-100 points	18	17
100 + points	26	13

I won 36 more games than her (229 – 193) and over 1/3 of my extra wins were of the 100+ point variety.  So it seems with the daughter it was better to play for the big win than to play for the small one (even though another 1/3 of my extra wins were of the 10 points or less variety).  The son and I are only a few games away from finishing our game.  I hold a 9,821 to 9,003 point lead after 450 games.  The interesting thing about our contest is that the wins are 224-223-3.  He has matched me game for game and yet I have never trailed (something I remind him of every 15 games or so).  He caught up from an almost 1,200 point deficit to less than 200 points only to watch my lead swell back up over 1,000 in seemingly no time.  I will have to let you know how it turns out (he is still holding out hope for a grand run and to snatch victory from me).

The wife starting a new job this week.  She has not worked for several years (since before we moved to Texas) so this is an adjustment for the family.  She is working afternoons during the summer so I am trying to work from home as much as I can so we can at least see each other.  She got a call out of the blue from the pet store that she worked at when we were dating.  She has worked there off and on and this is her 3rd time to return to work there.  The manager there knows her and calls her every so often when she is desperate or gets fed up with dealing with cashiers.  We are going to use the cash to fix up a few things around the house that we had to delay due to the extra expense of the kid’s private schooling.  She is still sore each night from the car accident over 2 years ago so I do not know how long this will last and I tried to talk her out of it but she wants to contribute.  She should be home in a few minutes actually so I had better wrap this blog up.

Jon