Casino Night/Membership Appreciation and Participation Program

Our goal is to encourage membership participation throughout the 2001-2002 year by awarding points for desired skills/practices culminating in an exciting year-end event to show appreciation to our membership.

Casino Night Games and Rules (Adobe PDF Document)

We will measure success by:

Goal Progress:

Goal 1: 10% increase overall in dinner night attendance (track monthly)

Goal 2: Five new people actively participating at the committee/board level (Executive Board to determine by year end)
Currently we have two new subcommittee members and two new board members

Goal 3: 50% of membership with listed e-mail receiving newsletter by e-mail only by year-end (track monthly)
The ability to get the newsletter by e-mail was implemented in January of 2002. Since that date, we have 42 members (as of Tuesday, April 30, 2002)who have elected to subscribe to the newsletter via e-mail. As of the March Membership list, 160 people have e-mail addresses listed and have answered "YES" to receive e-mails. That makes us at 26.25%.

So what is this event anyway?

General concept is to award points to members throughout the year. Points are determined based on behaviors that we would like to see modeled and those that support goals/objectives of the chapter.

Each point is equivalent to one dollar (equivalent as in not real money but we will get to that later).

Each member will be responsible for tracking their own points throughout the year. A grid is provided below - but give us a break, there are only four of us running this thing and besides we trust you - using Deming's principles here.

The last dinner meeting of the year (May) will culminate in a Casino/Auction event. Food and a cash bar will be provided - a brief presentation on gaming probability and rules will precede the event. Turn in your point sheet for gaming chips - if you forget, you will be awarded a base amount of points (points = chips = money).

Gamble at your choice of blackjack, poker, roulette and craps for the next couple of hours. If you go bust, you can negotiate with the organizers (a group of tough guys from New York and Chicago - interest rates are pretty high).

At the end of the gaming period turn in your chips for money (the ASQ buck kind not US Treasury). You may use your winnings (or losings) to bid on our showcase of great prizes.

Prizes are listed below - there is something for everyone and they are really great.


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Point Grid

Activity Points Frequency Activity Total
Dinner meeting attendance 200 each    
Bonus for attending all dinner meetings 5000                              
Participating on a sub-committee 5000    
RSVP for dinner meeting by due date 100 each    
Receiving the newsletter via e-mail 1000    
Having a certification 1000 each    
Teach a certification class 1000    
Signing/becoming up a new ASQ member 500 each    
Attending refresher course 500    
Attending an ASQ sponsored conference 250    
Speaking at a dinner meeting 250    
Submitting an article for publication in the ASQ1004 newsletter 250    
Filling out and returning survey 250    
Attending Executive Board meetings 100 each    
Proctoring an exam 100    
Finding/suggesting a speaker for a dinner meeting 100    
Answering a newsletter/website quiz 50 each    
Bringing a guest to a dinner meeting 50 each    
Bringing your boss to a dinner meeting 50    
Sending a new website link 25    
Not getting a prize at the dinner meeting 25 each    

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Bonus Point Trivia Questions

November 2001 Questions
  1. Using a fair deck of 52 cards, how many different 5 card poker hands can be made?
  2. Using a fair deck of 52 cards, how many different 7 card poker hand can be made?
  3. We all know 3 of a kind beats one pair. Prove this with probabilities.

December 2001 Questions

 The questions below all use a fair 52 card deck.
  1. If you are dealing yourself a game of blackjack with a full deck of cards, what is the probability that the first two cards will give you blackjack (An ace and a 10 or face card)?
  2. If you are dealing yourself a game of blackjack with a full deck of cards and the first two cards give you a total of sixteen (assume the cards are a 10 and a 6), what is the probability that you will bust (get more than 21 total) with the next card you flip over.
  3. Same a number 2 except you have 17 with a 10 and 7.

January 2002 Questions

 The questions below all use a fair 52 card deck. You are dealing yourself a poker hand where you have to at least 3 of a kind to have a winning hand. You dealing yourself a pair of jacks and a pair of sixes.
  1. What is the probability of making the 3 of a kind if you only discard the single non paired card?
  2. What is the probability of making the 3 of a kind if you discard 3 total cards (you will have to discard one pair).

February 2002 Questions

 Probabilities in Statistical Process Control
Assuming purely random variation, calculate the probabilities for the following SPC Rules:
(What you are calculating is the false positive signal probability)
Assume you have 3 values in scenario b and 5 values in scenario c.
From the Z-Table/Normal Distribution (http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/sttable.html#z):
Probability from -1 sigma to +1 sigma = 0.6826
Probability from -2 sigma to + 2 sigma = 0.9546
Probability from -3 sigma to + 3 sigma = 0.9973
Probability from - infinity to -1 sigma or +1 sigma to + infinity = 0.1587
Probability from - infinity to -2 sigma or +2 sigma to + infinity = 0.0228

March 2002 Questions

 No questions for March.

April 2002 Questions

 The following questions come from a presentation, "PDSA History & Application," made by Ronald D. Moen, Associates in Process Improvement, at the W. Edwards Deming Institute's fall conference, October 15, 2000.
Answer them correctly for Casino Bonus Points.

1. Where was Dr. Deming born?
     a. Maryland  b. New York  c. New Mexico  d. Iowa
2. What was Dr. Deming's first name?
     a. Winfred  b. Edwards  c. William  d. Ed
3. What year did Dr. Deming first go to Japan?
     a. 1947  b.1949  c. 1950  d. 1951
4. What year did Dr. Deming introduce "production viewed as a system"?
     a. 1947  b. 1949  c. 1950  d. 1951
5. Which is not a step in the Shewhart cycle?
     a. market research  b. specification  c. inspection  d. production
6. Which discipline was integral to Deming cycle in 1950?
     a. project management  b. marketing research  c. inspection  d. managing people
7. The Deming cycle of 1950 was primarily focused on ________?
     a. product   b. process  c. neither  d. both
8. The Deming cycle of 1990 was primarily focused on ________?
     a. product   b. process   c. neither   d. both
9. The Deming cycle of 1993 was primarily focused on ________?
     a. product  b. process  c. neither  d. both
10. How many steps did the Deming cycle of 1975 have?
     a. 3   b. 4  c. 6  d. 8
11. Application of the current Deming cycle is least useful in which of these?
     a. change a light bulb  b. buy a new computer  c. develop a strategic plan  d. implement a change
12. Which method was not implicit in the Deming cycle of 1950?
     a. control chart  b. Pareto chart  c. design of experiment  d. survey method


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Bonus Point Trivia Question Answers

November Bouns Point Trivia Question Answer
December Bouns Point Trivia Question Answer
February Bouns Point Trivia Question Answer

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Prizes (Firm)