Skittles Game Big W

[John]

Ipurchased all of the 2.17-ounce packs of Skittles for this experiment from Amazon in boxes of 36 packs each. From 12 January through 4 April, I worked my way through 13 boxes, for a total of 468 packs, at the approximate rate of six packs per day. This was enough to feel like I was making progress each day, but not enough to become annoying or risk clerical errors. For each six-pack recording session, I did the following:

The entire data set is available here as well as on GitHub. The following figure shows the photos of all 468 packs (the originals are 1024768 pixels each), with the found pair of identical packs circled in red.

Given this, a reasonable approximation of the expected number of packs we need to inspect until encountering a first duplicate is , or about 400-500 packs depending on our assumption for the pack size density .

The most common and controversial question asked about Skittles seems to be whether all five flavors are indeed uniformly distributed, or whether some flavors are more common than others. The following figure shows the distribution observed in this sample of 468 packs.

Somewhat unfortunately, this data set potentially adds fuel to the frequent accusation that the yellow Skittles dominate. However, I leave it to an interested reader to consider and analyze whether this departure from uniformity is significant.

How accurate was our prior assumed distribution for the total number of Skittles in each pack? The following figure shows the observed distribution from this sample of 468 packs, with the mean of 59.2735 Skittles per pack shown in red.

Although our prior assumed average of 60 Skittles per pack was reasonable, there is strong evidence against our assumption of independence from one pack to the next, as shown in the following figure. The x-axis indicates the pack number from 1 to 468, and the y-axis indicates the number of Skittles in the pack, either total (in black) or of each individual color. The vertical grid lines show the grouping of 36 packs per box.

How big are all the images? That could make for an interesting image processing dataset, especially since it includes all the skittle counts: Train on counting the skittles of half the set and then test against the other half.

The automated counting idea is interesting. The original images are 1024768 PNGs, which take up about 300 MB. I converted to JPG to bring it down to less than 30 MB, and added these to the GitHub repo.

Really interesting! Can I ask why you chose to arrange the Skittles in two columns to photograph? I feel like having one long column would be easier to compare, or some 4xN grid easier to quickly count.

An interesting question is, therefore, how likely are you to see an adjacent spike (as you observed) in a >randomlyWhen I was a kid my Uncle Jeff swore he found a pack of skittles without any red ones, so he wrote to Skittles and they sent him a giant sack of JUST red skittles and it was the best day of my kid life.

I love the images you have here. I am a maths tutor in Oxfordshire, England and would love to use your Skittles images on my facebook page and in teaching students. Would that be possible please? I would be happy to give you an accreditation, of course.

Students color each section on the writing frame to match the skittles color. All purple sections will be colored purple on the final writing page. To make the rainbow effect, students will spread their colors out around the paper.

While the melty texture of the happycreamies is novel and fun, what our kiddos really crave is good foods that will make their bodies healthy and strong. And poppable drops makes them easy to store, transport, and snack on.

Besides the fun factor, if my kids were eating a rainbow confetti of these snacks, I would know they were getting a good variety of fruits and veggies with every snack, which is more useful to our bodies in general than eating only carrots for a week, then only beets for a week, and so forth. I also made them a bit more sustaining (and gave them a chewier texture) by adding fat to each one. Most flavors have coconut cream concentrate in them, while the green ones have avocado for added fat.

I really want to like these beautiful skittles, but no matter which ones I try, the sweet potato taste is always overpowering all the fruit. Do you have an idea for a substitute that will give it the same substance minus the taste? I would really like them to taste like the gorgeous fruit I put in. :)

I am planni g meals months in advance to prep me for a lifestyle change. Do you think these could be vacuum packed or frozen to last longer? how long is long for keeping them. also never heard of white sweet potato maybe parsnip as an alternative?

Hi! I have a ton leftover and not sure I will have time to dehydrate the rest. Any chance this stuff freezes or other uses you have found? Ps, thank you soooo much! My guy is dairy free and loves those coconut creamies. Hope that we can replace them with these homemade treats!

If I do this with a regular fruit/veggie smoothie base including the sweet potato for thickness and the avocado to replace the coconut butter, should I still put in the lemon juice or is that not needed

I just put the orange/carrot/sweet potato ones in the dehydrator..i added a little vanilla, sea salt and dates..it tasted so yummy..i also used my food processor and did a double batch and it filled my eleven cup processor to the brim!!

This is such a great idea! I know I always struggle trying to find paleo snacks that are easy and convenient to take along with me. People will say bring fruit or veggies, but you kind of get sick of carrying a bunch of fruit that goes to waste once you forget it in your purse. For a week. Plus this will give me a good excuse to use the Vitamix. :-)

I made my first batch today with my friend, the orange/sweetpotato/carrot one and we are swooning! We zested the oranges for extra oomph, and added some stevia to assure kid approval, but we had a blast making them. Not hard at all, and so much fun! I love how these idea showcase the amazing natural colors in our foods, so beautiful! Thanks so much, we are excited to play around with more variations.

Do you have any suggestions when it comes to using your oven as your dehydrator? I love this idea but simply do not have the room for yet another appliance in my already overly loaded kitchen :) I have to cook for gluten intolerance and these sound heavenly with my upcoming diet too!

I am going to try making these with Coconut Oil because I was shocked to see how many Calories the Butter has in comparison. Over 300 in just a tsp vs half as much for a TBSP of the oil. One batch will be over 3,000 calories just from the butter alone. Did anyone else try the oil route yet?

Has anyone tried them without the lemon juice? We have a citrus allergy in this house. Has anyone adjusted the recipies to because of food allergies? Can you us something other than coconut butter here it is $12+ a jar.

A lot of people are asking this without much reply. Any way to actually cut down on the fat instead of just using a different fat. I did some number crunching and a batch of the maroon ones have about 900 calories and 40 grams of fat. Too much for me!

When I was a kid, which was a million years ago if you ask my kids, I had this set of scratch-n-sniff Little Golden Books that I absolutely adored. I was a bit obsessed with them. The scented photos were one more little detail that magically brought the pages to life.

Recently while we were shopping at a second-hand store my son found a version of a Little Bunny Follows His Nose. He was almost as excited as I was. As we explored the pages of this book, I watched his excitement burst from his seams every time we discovered a new image to scratch. I just knew I had to explore scratch-n-sniff activities more often with him. This Skittles Candy Paint was a super easy way to make watercolors at home.

My son had so much fun with this scratch-n-sniff watercolor paint! We have visited this activity multiple times since we originally made it. It has been a beautiful tool for engaging my son in exploration.

When we created this paint, I made enough of it so that we could use whatever was leftover to make skittles playdough. This watercolor follows the exact same concept as our Conversation Hearts Watercolors, but it showed up a hundred times more vibrant. To start I let my son sort out his colors (this free printable skittles game for kids is great to play while sorting your skittles) . This did take a bit and we ended up with a lot of mixed reds and oranges. Letting kids help in this step is not only an awesome way to explore sorting and colors, but it also works on their pincer grip.

Once my son lost interest in sorting the colors I checked to make sure that each color contained about 1/4 cup of skittles and then topped it off with a cup of water. Then let it sit for about half an hour!

It is actually really fascinating to watch the colors dissolve off of the skittles. If you are making these watercolors I would highly recommend setting a 1-4 Skittles of each color off to the side to explore the science behind dissolving Skittles. It really is magical!

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