[Edu-sig] casino math (unit three) (Saturday night fever)

[Laura Creighton]

I have to think about this more, but on a very quick first reading it
seems that you have missed a strategy that I have needed in order to
solve some tough PileOn games.

And that is breaking up groups of 2 or 3 that you already have built, or 
dealt.  Given these 3 piles to start with

A B X X
C D X E
F G X B
(and then some more)

the correct way to solve things may be to put E and B in the empty
slots, take one X  from the first pile and put it on the second
and take the other and put it on the third.  Then move the B
from the empty slot back to pile one.  The same thing has also
been needed when piles are

A X X B 

as well.

Does your algorithm handle that, or does it assume that things that
are stuck together belong together?

Laura