Games and Puzzles

The first proven way to beat blackjack, by counting the cards left in the deck.

The Kelly criterion for sizing bets, from Bell Labs to casinos and hedge funds.

The standard general history of gambling.

Tech firms' puzzle interview questions, and whether they pick good hires.

People can't act randomly, and how to exploit that in games, tests and markets.

How games such as Uncharted 4, Halo Wars and Destiny were made, and the strain.

How poker players, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists think about risk.

How Las Vegas grew from the Rat Pack era into a family holiday city.

Video games from their pre-electronic origins to the industry of 2001.

The MIT blackjack team; dramatised and disputed in places.

Video games from Atari and cartridge consoles to Nintendo and the global industry.

The console market Sony entered with PlayStation and eventually took.

How renowned video game studios fell apart, and what happened to their staff.

The player's own analysis of 60 of his most important and representative games.

More than 50 practical bridge bidding conventions explained, with a glossary.

Three bridge bidding tools: forcing notrump, new minor forcing, fourth suit forcing.

A poker player covers the murder of Ted Binion and plays the World Series of Poker.

The rise and fall of Stuey "The Kid" Ungar, called the greatest poker player.

Game design principles drawn from psychology, with 100+ sets of questions to ask.

A quick reference to the Losing Trick Count for judging a trump hand's trick-taking.

How the problem-solving and teamwork of games could solve real-world problems.

Games operator on retention, whales and the shape of monetisation curves.

Short math and logic puzzles, from the mutilated chessboard to the fork in the road.