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The Game Odds Series

Seven strategy monographs by Winfield, published by the Library of Alexandria, an Odisena imprint. Each volume states the exact price of every bet or placement it discusses, computes what can be computed in closed form, labels every simulated figure as simulated, and calls advice doctrine wherever no honest computation exists. All seven are free direct downloads here, as PDF and EPUB — nothing to buy, no account, no checkout.

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What this shelf claims

Each volume is publicly reachable at a working URL on this site as a directly-inspected PDF and EPUB, under a Living Edition notice that promises revision rather than finality. That is the whole claim.

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What this shelf does not claim

These are letter-trim ebook PDFs, not verified print interiors. No print edition, retail listing, cover wrap, or paperback extent is claimed, and none of the seven is canon-validated or publication-locked.

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The Shelf

Seven volumes, free to download

01

How to win Professional Rumicube

A probability-grounded handbook for competitive play, built on five million simulated deals · By Winfield

Living Edition 1.1, the only volume on the shelf past its first revision: edition 1.0 shipped ten chapters, and 1.1 adds chapter 11, The Twist Variant and Its Four Jokers. The edition changelog is printed in the book itself, so the revision is readable rather than merely asserted. PDF directly inspected at 38 pages.

Living Edition 1.1 38 pages 11 chapters published 2026-07-16 not locked

ISBNs assigned from the Odisena block (PDF 979-8-951779-10-6; EPUB 979-8-951779-11-3); the authoritative registry claim is a separate database action, not asserted here.

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02

How to win Professional Blackjack

A probability-grounded handbook for the only beatable table game, built on an exact solver and two million simulated hands · By Winfield

Basic strategy derived rather than reprinted, counting systems priced against realistic penetration, and a documented lineage that runs through the 1962 publication of Beat the Dealer. The book states its own reproduction path: seeded randomness, a script per table, and numbers that regenerate bit-identically. PDF directly inspected at 31 pages.

Living Edition 1.0 31 pages 12 chapters published 2026-07-16 not locked

ISBNs assigned from the Odisena block (PDF 979-8-951779-12-0; EPUB 979-8-951779-13-7); the authoritative registry claim is a separate database action, not asserted here.

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03

How to win Professional Poker

A probability-grounded handbook for low-stakes No-Limit Hold'em, built on a seven-card engine and twenty thousand simulated careers · By Winfield

The one casino game on the shelf where the opponent, not the house, sets the price: the rake, not a built-in edge, is the cost of admission. Equities come from an exhaustive seven-card evaluator; the long-run figures come from simulated careers rather than promises, and variance is presented as a cost of doing business instead of a footnote. PDF directly inspected at 27 pages.

Living Edition 1.0 27 pages 13 chapters published 2026-07-17 not locked

ISBNs assigned from the Odisena block (PDF 979-8-951779-14-4; EPUB 979-8-951779-15-1); the authoritative registry claim is a separate database action, not asserted here.

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04

How to win Professional Roulette

The exact price of every bet, the autopsy of every system, and five million simulated sessions on all three wheels · By Winfield

A complete price list for the American, European, and French wheels, followed by the systems that claim to beat them and the arithmetic that says they do not. Historical edge-finding attempts are reported as documented history with their sources, not as advice. PDF directly inspected at 22 pages.

Living Edition 1.0 22 pages 13 chapters published 2026-07-17 not locked

ISBNs assigned from the Odisena block (PDF 979-8-951779-16-8; EPUB 979-8-951779-17-5); the authoritative registry claim is a separate database action, not asserted here.

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05

How to win Professional Craps

The only fair bet in the house, a museum of bad ideas, and eight million simulated sessions on the felt · By Winfield

The 36-outcome lattice worked exactly, the odds bet identified as the table's single zero-edge wager, and every proposition bet costed and catalogued as what it is. Dice control is addressed on the evidence rather than dismissed or endorsed. PDF directly inspected at 30 pages.

Living Edition 1.0 30 pages 13 chapters published 2026-07-17 not locked

ISBNs assigned from the Odisena block (PDF 979-8-951779-18-2; EPUB 979-8-951779-19-9); the authoritative registry claim is a separate database action, not asserted here.

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06

How to win Professional Baccarat

A game that plays itself, a scoreboard that remembers nothing, and nine million simulated sessions at the big table · By Winfield

The shelf's most honest negative result: a game with fixed drawing rules, a commission that decides the whole economics, and a scoreboard that carries no information about the next hand. The combinatorial engine and the simulated sessions are used to price patience, not to sell a pattern. PDF directly inspected at 29 pages.

Living Edition 1.0 29 pages 13 chapters published 2026-07-17 not locked

ISBNs assigned from the Odisena block (PDF 979-8-951779-20-5; EPUB 979-8-951779-21-2); the authoritative registry claim is a separate database action, not asserted here.

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07

How to win Professional Catan

The 36-outcome lattice, placement expected value, the robber's price list, and a seeded simulation campaign of 265,000 games · By Winfield

The capstone of the shelf and, in the book's own words, the first game in this series that can actually be beaten — no house edge, no commission, no rake. Eleven chapters plus an engine appendix: the pip map in exact fractions, every one of the board's 54 intersections scored before the first roll, the robber priced as denial mathematics, and a tournament of four doctrines run at a fixed seed. Where mathematics ends — negotiation, above all — the text says so and labels the advice doctrine. PDF directly inspected at 25 pages.

Living Edition 1.0 25 pages 11 chapters + appendix 265,000 simulated games published 2026-07-24 not locked

ISBNs printed in the book and recorded in the block ledger as assigned 2026-07-24 (PDF 979-8-951779-42-7; EPUB 979-8-951779-43-4). These replace an earlier pair that briefly collided with Quantum Motion Under Uncertainty; see the correction logged below.

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How the numbers are produced

Solver first, simulation second, doctrine labelled as doctrine

Exact figures are computed in closed form — fractions, not rounded decimals
Simulated figures come from seeded Monte Carlo runs and are labelled as simulated, with the seed recorded in each book's appendix
Where no honest computation is possible, the text says so and calls the advice doctrine
Volumes open with a cross-check against a published reference value, so a broken engine is visible early — the Catan capstone describes this as the pattern set by the earlier volumes
Each book is a Living Edition: revisions are expected, and every edition records what changed

Provenance boundary

The engine is the source of the numbers. It is not published on this site.

The seeded solver and simulation codebase behind the series is held outside this repository. Its own build record reports 126 passing tests for the Catan engine; that suite was not re-run for this catalog entry, and the figure is recorded here as a reported build result rather than an independently reproduced one. What was directly inspected for this shelf is the fourteen published files: page counts read from each PDF, structural integrity checked, and ISBNs read from each PDF colophon and each EPUB package document.

Provenance & Corrections — Logged, Not Hidden

Five records attached to this shelf

EPUBs regenerated 2026-07-24: The EPUB editions of volumes 1–6 were regenerated on 2026-07-24 from the canonical Living Edition manuscripts after a sandbox infrastructure loss. Content is identical to the editions those ISBNs were assigned to, and the regeneration is disclosed on each of the six EPUB copyright pages — directly verified in all six files. The Catan EPUB is an original build and carries no such note.
Correction — Catan ISBNs reassigned (resolved 2026-07-24): 979-8-951779-22-9 and -23-6 were initially recorded against How to win Professional Catan while already assigned to Quantum Motion Under Uncertainty. The collision was detected on 2026-07-24, before this shelf was deployed. Quantum Motion Under Uncertainty retains 979-8-951779-22-9 / -23-6, which are already submitted to KDP; Catan was reassigned to 979-8-951779-42-7 (PDF) / 979-8-951779-43-4 (EPUB) and rebuilt so the printed numbers match. The files published above carry the new ISBNs. Rows 38-0 through 40-3 were skipped as held pending availability. No edition was published under the colliding numbers.
Account-renewal language in volumes 1–6: The front matter of the first six volumes invites owners to create a free Odisena Account to fetch the most current electronic edition. No account, checkout, or redemption layer exists on this site, and none is built by this shelf: the downloads above are free, direct, and unconditional. The printed invitation is therefore ahead of the infrastructure, and is recorded here as a known divergence rather than quietly dropped.
Excluded duplicate of volume 1: A 36-page non-Living-Edition PDF of How to win Professional Rumicube exists in the source material. It is excluded: only Living Edition 1.1 (38 pages) is published here, so that the file on this site matches the edition its ISBNs and changelog describe.
Work resumed after the July 2026 outage: This shelf completes an integration approved in its originating thread before the July 2026 infrastructure outage interrupted it. The approval predates the outage; the files, page counts, and ISBNs published here were re-inspected directly on 2026-07-25 rather than carried forward on trust.

Editions & downloads

The fourteen files on this shelf

Volume	Edition	Pages	PDF ISBN	EPUB ISBN	Published	Files
Rumicube	Living Edition 1.1	38	979-8-951779-10-6	979-8-951779-11-3	2026-07-16	PDF · EPUB
Blackjack	Living Edition 1.0	31	979-8-951779-12-0	979-8-951779-13-7	2026-07-16	PDF · EPUB
Poker	Living Edition 1.0	27	979-8-951779-14-4	979-8-951779-15-1	2026-07-17	PDF · EPUB
Roulette	Living Edition 1.0	22	979-8-951779-16-8	979-8-951779-17-5	2026-07-17	PDF · EPUB
Craps	Living Edition 1.0	30	979-8-951779-18-2	979-8-951779-19-9	2026-07-17	PDF · EPUB
Baccarat	Living Edition 1.0	29	979-8-951779-20-5	979-8-951779-21-2	2026-07-17	PDF · EPUB
Catan	Living Edition 1.0	25	979-8-951779-42-7	979-8-951779-43-4	2026-07-24	PDF · EPUB

Page counts were read from each PDF directly. The ISBN block ledger backing these assignments is committed alongside the shelf as isbn-block-ledger-979-8-951779.csv; it is a record of assignment within the Odisena block, not evidence of registry submission.

Ownership

Published by the Library of Alexandria, an Odisena imprint.

The Game Odds Series is © 2026 Odisena. All rights reserved. Written by Winfield. Game names are used descriptively to identify the subject of analysis; no affiliation with, or endorsement by, any game publisher or casino operator is claimed. Nothing on this shelf is gambling advice or a promise about any future session. For more from Odisena, visit odisena.com.