The maths behind Dobble

Micky Dore
9 min readFeb 6, 2021
A picture of the traditional game of Dobble.
A picture of the card game Dobble.

In this series I will guide you through my journey in re-creating an online version of Dobble, or Spot It, depending on where you’re from, the fast-paced, observational game pushing stress levels to breaking point and ruining friendships all in the name of fun since 2009. I will break this project into several parts, starting with a peek into the theory and mathematics behind the game’s principles and how we can create our own deck of cards, and…

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Micky Dore

A curious software developer interested in this 'n' that