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The Minimals: 3 and 4 Chips

By FlipJumper | February 29, 2008

Photo by Randy Morse

The minimum number of chips necessary to do a Single Chip Flip Jump with most poker chips is 3 chips. As you saw in the last post, (The Zeros and Tiddlys, Sharpies and Rounders), with Sharpies you can do it with 2 chips.

The minimum number of chips necessary to do a Combination Chip Flip Jump with most poker chips is 4 chips, and once again, with Sharpies you can do it with 3 chips. Using Sharpies also increases the number of different variations that are possible with any given number of chips, since you can do the Zeros.

3 Chips

As is probably obvious, with 3 Rounders you can do the most basic of all Chip Flip Jumps, the 111, 1 off 1 onto 1. With Sharpies you can add 3 more variations, 2 single-jumps and a double-jump.

Chip Flip Jumps on the video: 3 Chips
111
102, 201
111-102
3 Chips - 0:34

4 Rounders

There are 4 variations that can be done with 4 Rounders, 3 single-jumps and the one true minimal double-jump.

Chip Flip Jumps on the video: 4 Rounders
112, 211, 121
121-112
4 Rounders - 0:24

4 Sharpies

When you use 4 Sharpies, there are 7 additional variations that are possible, 3 single-jumps, 3 double-jumps and a triple-jump. This gives you a total of 11 variations that are possible with 4 chips.

Chip Flip Jumps on the video: 4 Sharpies
103, 301, 202
211-103, 112-103, 121-202
121-112-103
4 Sharpies - 0:55

As you can see, the number of possible variations greatly increases with each chip you add. I’ve done the 11 possible variations with 5 Rounders, but I don’t know how many more jumps are perhaps possible with Sharpies.

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