Grace’s chip pile, from a starting total of 50 chips, after about an hour of play.

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For reference, my brother’s chip pile at about the same time.

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evidently hadn’t played Rummoli in the better part of a decade. But she’s absurdly good at number- and pattern-dependent games…to such a consistent degree that one begins to doubt that games of chance are truly random things.

No, really…you should see her play .