cavedave on 15.03.2026 3:39 p.m. [The Skittle Maths by Clare Wallace](https://www.clarewallace.co.uk/skittles) was on the most recent [A problem Squared Podcast ](https://www.patreon.com/posts/130-sly-skittles-152484396) I took Clare Wallace’s spreadsheet and used python and mathplotlib to graph all the bags she has counted. [Code is here](https://gist.github.com/cavedave/779193b08673c735f2f0a9e048e0f79f)
Shagyam on 15.03.2026 3:50 p.m. Pulling from 5 colors an average of 17 times is just about 6000 unique combinations, so to get 86 duplicates within this sample is interesting.
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[The Skittle Maths by Clare Wallace](https://www.clarewallace.co.uk/skittles) was on the most recent [A problem Squared Podcast ](https://www.patreon.com/posts/130-sly-skittles-152484396)
I took Clare Wallace’s spreadsheet and used python and mathplotlib to graph all the bags she has counted. [Code is here](https://gist.github.com/cavedave/779193b08673c735f2f0a9e048e0f79f)
Kinda looks like a fractal
I don’t know how, but there must be a better way to see this
Pulling from 5 colors an average of 17 times is just about 6000 unique combinations, so to get 86 duplicates within this sample is interesting.