calculate malus value of a urn

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In an urn, I can put 20 balls having a value from 1 to 7.

So I got Ni, with i $\in$ [1,2,3,4,5,6,7], where Ni is the number of balls with a value i in the urn.

And $\sum_{i=1}^7 Ni = 20$

The game is played like this :

  • At the first round I pick 3 balls randomly.

  • Every round I Need to play the round's number in value of balls. (At the second round, I need to play one balls with a value of two, or two balls with a value of 1)

  • The the balls used on a turn disapears

  • Every round I pick one balls randomly

  • If I dont do so there is a malus. The malus is counted like that :

malus = $(N_r - V_r ) * M_r$

$N_r$ = round's number

$V_r$ = Value played at this round

Mr = Malus coefficient of this round (there is one for all the round) , $M_r$ $\ge$ 1

My goal, is to calculate this malus given the urn.


My method for this calcul go like this :

First round, I got two possibilities :

  • I can play 1 ball of value 1 : 1 - $\binom{20-N1}{3}$

  • I cant play : $\binom{20-N1}{3}$

Second round, I got 8 possibilities :

Turn 1, I played :

  • I can play 1 ball of value 2

  • I can play 2 ball of value 1

  • I can play 1 ball of value 1

  • I cant play

And same 4 possibilities if I dont played..

So every turn the calcul become harder..

If there is only 7 turn, it resul in :

2 * 4 * 7 * 12 * 19 * 30 * 45 = 17236800 possibilities to calculate

Is there a better way to do it ?

I tried to use the Law of total probability to find a series that I could sum, but I didnt suceeded in it.

( I also did a simulation before that, but I want the real result and not the result $\pm \epsilon$

Tell me if you need more information.

Thanks for any and all help.