![]() and the worst time to play was 11:46 a.m.,” Wallace said. “What I found was the best time to play was 3:16 a.m. While some may be able to reasonably guess a good time to play, Wallace was able to determine the best minute to play in his time zone, using data. His theory is simple, play when others are not to improve your chance of winning. “This year, one big difference I noticed was on their website, they starting posting the number of prizes people were winning as the contest went along, so these numbers are telling you roughly how many people are playing and by recording the data I was able to plot and figure out when the best time to play and when was the worst time to play, based on when other people were playing in the contest,” he said. This year Wallace says Tim Hortons sent him an unintentional life line in the form of real time data. In 2022, Wallace made some changes and achieved a 40 per cent win rate. I gambled that they hadn’t thought of a few things that I thought of and I bought a bunch of coffees and saved a bunch of rolls and played them at the very end of the contest and managed to win at about 98 per cent of the time.”Īfter a winning streak in 2020, Wallace said Tim Hortons made some changes and the winning rate fell back to earth in 2021. Wallace said he read the rules, did a little research on online contests and came up with a theory. When they moved it to a digital app, that opened up a lot of interesting avenues of thinking about how the contest was designed and how you as a player might be able to take advantage of that,” said Wallace. “When the contest is on a physical cup, there is not actually a lot you can do. ![]() ![]() “This year when I played my rolls at the best time, I won at almost 80 per cent of the time” said Wallace.įor Wallace, Roll Up is the convergence of two passions: statistics and contests.īack in 2020 when Roll Up moved from a cup to online, Wallace saw an opportunity. Play as either Napoleon or Wellington and lead your infantry and cavalry into the fray, set up your artillery to wreak havoc on your opponents position! Relive and refight this epic but bloody battle: storm or bombard the farm of Hougemont, let your heavy cavalry charge down in a wild frenzy or let your brave marshal lead your excited troops into that gap in order to sever the enemy's lines of communications.Īs Wellington, will you stand your ground and wait for the arrival of the Prussian reinforcements or will you take the inititiative and make the most of every mistake the French make? As Napoleon, will you start the battle early but with less troops or will you use your entire force to knock those British, Germans and Dutch from that ridge? YOU decide the destiny of Europe.Īlthough great care has been taken to offer the players a good ‘feel’ of the historical battle, the movable terrain tiles invite you to create and play any fictional battle.For most people who play Roll Up To Win at Tim Hortons, the winning happens once in a while.įor Michael Wallace, a statistics professor at the University of Waterloo – it’s a different story. Thanks to the basic, standard and expert game rules it will provide both casual and expert gamers an hour to an hour and a half of battlefield excitement. ![]() Stratego Waterloo is a highly flexible tactical board game specially designed to commemorate the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo. Will you succeed in punching through Wellington’s lines before the arrival of the Prussians or will you, as Napoleon did, "Meet your Waterloo"? Relive and refight the Battle of Waterloo by leading your troops on as either Emperor Napoleon or the Duke of Wellington. ![]()
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