Game Definition and 693 Threads

We all* are familiar with the dinosaur game that pops us when the computer cannot connect to the internet. What is the highest score that you have achieved? Note that if you play the game using AI or a pre-programmed bot, that will not qualify here. Edit: *assuming you are using Google Chrome.

Consider the following game. Two players alternately break vertical or horizontal lines from a rectangular chocolate bar. In each move the player can break one or two lines, either vertical on the right or horizontal from below. The chocolate bar in the upper left corner of the plate is...

So I am trying to answer a question which is about an egg toss game where two people try to throw an egg at each other without breaking it.The question is how can the force of impact be reduced so that the egg doesn't break. With respect to the F = Δ p / Δ t formula, I think increasing time of...

I saw a post here about calculating damage per second (DPS) and tried to modify it to my need. https://mathhelpboards.com/pre-algebra-algebra-2/formula-calculating-dps-damage-per-second-18847.htmlis the original post. My attack power is 46722 and I make 2.15 attacks a second, that come to be a...

Summary: When we hit the cue ball which energy is being converted into the kinetic energy of the ball? When we hit the cue ball which energy is being converted into the kinetic energy of the ball?

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538 is a website that does election data and polling analysis. On its Culture page there are some math, probability, and statistics puzzles. The following is one that stumped me: Joe DiMaggio's record 56 game hitting streak is considered hard to break(getting at least one base hit in 56...

Question: "In a lottery game each player tries to guess right 6 numbers designated in advance by choosing randomly from among numbers from 1 to 20. Given that one player guessed right 5 numbers out of 6 that he/she picked, what is the probability of guessing right the 6 numbers?" The problem...

Homework Statement Jack plays a game with two fair spinners, A and B. Spinner A can land on the number 2 or 3 or 5 or 7 Spinner B can land on the number 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 Jack spins both spinners. He wins the game if one spinner lands on an odd number and the other spinner lands on an...

I'm an old man. I cut my teeth on *pew pew* games in the video arcades of bowling alleys. I burned out my video game organ decades ago. The only carryover was games like Myst and SimCity and some of those Discover new lands type games. I like construction games rather than competitive or battle...

https://www.physicsforums.com/attachments/8765 ok I am trying to find out what the latex code is to do this. whether or not it could be used here I do not know but trying to see if a cell phone version of it could be created. I think MHB could be advertised a lot if students could get these...

While chess hasn't been solved yet, other games have. For example, I know that in in some games, like connect four, if both players play perfectly, the player who goes first will always win. On the other hand, some games, like tic tac toe, a perfect game will result in a draw; in fact, I...

I just saw this on ESPN (I never heard of this before) and found it hilarious: An MIT frat buried a device under that turf of the football field and during the game triggered it to poke up out of the ground and inflate a weather balloon with MIT written all over it. The prank was 4 years in...

Okay, I never took calculus 3 so I don't know how to write/solve an integral for a power I made up. I want to flesh out my game world with math because it's cool and I can. Like Chester wrote some of the physics for the Bizarro universe. Applying physics and math to a fictitious universe is...

Homework Statement I want to prompt the user to input how many times they want to roll a die, then generate a random number between 1 and 6. I then need to print what their number is and if it is even or odd. The code I posted below is what I came up with for a single die roll that allows...

My friend has asked me for a formula that will solve his kid's elevator game. Imagine an apartment building with an infinite number of floors, both + and -. You start on an arbitrary floor, say 11. The game asks you to meet your mother on the 61st floor (the actual goal floor changes). But the...

On p. 566 (Section 563) of Hamilton's Lectures on Quaternions, I find "Operating with phi, and making reductions analogous to those of recent articles..." The 2nd derivation, beginning with "phi rho prime" so far totally eludes me. Let me apologize if this is the wrong forum. Quaternions have...

I am trying to analyze the game of tennis. I started very simply by analyzing just the ground strokes, ignoring the serve, and calculating the odds of winning a single point given the odds of returning each ground stroke. I got a surprising (to me) result showing that the player to goes first...

Greg Bernhardt submitted a new PF Insights post Orbital Mechanics in Unity Game Engine for Augmented Reality Continue reading the Original PF Insights Post.

What can 'game theory' tell us about life? The prisoner's dilemma is an issue of Pareto optimality, wherein the best possible outcome is one where both parties cooperate with each other to derive the highest Pareto optimality. But, the issue is that the highest Pareto optimality for the...

I was playing a game of running (Need for Speed Underground) and was the second time that I thought how to determine the speed of the brain or the speed of the thought. I was running to more 200 km/h (you guys use mph, I'm from a country that uses km/h). And I crashing a lot with more 200 km/h...

Some people may remember this old java applt, I rewritten it in JS recently, its free possible to use in classroom, enjoy: http://panoramx.ift.uni.wroc.pl/%7Emaq/felp.pl/sanjose/index.html The article about it is here.

Hey, so I've got this problem that I'm trying to figure out. I've worked out something that I think is probably right through simulation, but I'm not really sure how to tackle it from a purely mathematical probability perspective. So, would anyone know how I should approach this? I've tried a...

For this puzzle game: MillionPuzzleGame.com I'd like to check I worked out the number of combinations correctly. Also, how long would a computer take to solve it?

In Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or : How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, is depicted, rather comically, a mad scientist who understands that the doomsday weapon is actually an absolute deterrent against nuclear war. The only misfortune is that nobody knew about it in time as...

Hey! :o A and B play 100 games of squash; A wins E times. B claims that both of them have the same probability of winning a game. We consider that the games are independent. (a) Formulate the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis. (b) For which values of $E$ will the null...

4 people are playing the Bridge Game, out of 4 players 1 player hasn't received a single Ace after third turn, does he have the right to complain that he doesn't have luck? To clarify some things - There are 32 cards (4 types), each of the four players get 8 cards for each turn. The problem is...

Dear Mates, I was studying Newton's Laws of Motion by Berkeley's Physics Course, Vol. 1 - Chap. 3, when I came across this problem, about finding the maximum separation of the boys. In my mind, it was simply about finding the "2x", considering x to be the distance between the first boy and the...

Part 1: Your friend wants to play a game. You will roll two dice. If the sum of the dice is 8 or higher you win \$2, from 5-7 you win \$1, and from 2-4 you lose. You pay \$10 to play the game. Should you play? Explain. (Hint: Construct a probability distribution and find the mean) Part 2: Fix...

This post is to set forth a little game that attempts to demonstrate something that I find to be intriguing about the real numbers. The game is one that takes place in a theoretical sense only. It starts by assuming we have two pieces of paper. On each is a line segment of length two: [0,2]...

Hi there, I am new here so please don't be too hard on me yet and move this post if i placed it in the wrong forum. I am developing a little experiment game and i want the train to drive using real physics, but I am really bad at physics. So my question is is how do I calculate the friction of...

Hey! :o I am looking the following: There are 1 Million voters. 2000 of them know exactly that they will vote for A, but the other 998000 will decide if whether they will vote for A or B in the voting booth using a coin. With which possibility will A get more votes? At a quiz we get...

Each of 2n people are assigned a number from 1 to x so that every number is assigned to exactly 2 people. The people are then arranged randomly in a line. Every round of the game, the person at the front of the line goes to the corner. If two people with the same number are in the corner, both...

I have a probability question which has cropped up while playing a game called "Shopping List" with my sons. The game is played like this: you pick a fixed shopping list of 10 items, and three other players do the same. You have all of the items on cards, face down on the floor in-between the...

Homework Statement I'm using a microcontroller to create a pong game, but I'm completely new to C programmning. I'm mostly reusing code and adding bits in here and there rather than writing it from scratch. I have a basic pong game working right now, but every time someone scores, I have to...

I did a PF search to try to see if this was discussed before, and didn't find what I was wanting to ask about (I could have missed it). :smile: I'm writing a Rubik's Cube game C/C# program for fun (starting with a console app and working up through various GUI options). I'd like to use a...

Hi. So my knowledge of math has regressed to very very basic. I want to start from the beginning and build a solid foundation. So the path I've created for my self before starting my uni education is; Algebra 1 and 2 Geometry Trig Pre Calc Calc And then once I get to uni ill start with...

Homework Statement My teacher gave our class this problem to do Two players take turns placing an unused number from {1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8} into one of the empty squares in a 2 by 4 array. The game ends once all the squares are tiled. The 1st player wins if the product of the numbers in the...

Hey all, ran into a game theory problem I can't solve. A and B have a set of 10 random numbers from 1-10, players can make so called "piles", a pile has a goal number from 1 to 10, if 6,3 are on the table, a pile of nine may be started, the pile is added to by adding sets of numbers that sum to...

Homework Statement Imagine you are playing a game with me, of drawing balls from a box. There are two blue balls and two red balls. They are picked with equal probability, and are drawn without replacement. If you draw a blue ball, I give you $1. If you draw a red ball, you pay me $1.25. What...

Hi, I'm trying to make a physics based game to teach my progeny about the universe. My first step will be to show how bodies gravitate around other bodies, and then model a solar system, a galaxy... simple things. I could do it using Newton's laws, but I want to include things like black holes...

I am making a video game using Game Maker Studio 2.0 and am making a radar. To give you some background, one object is obj_Player, and the other is obj_Sub. The radar gives the sub's position and distance from the player (center of radar). The first part of my radar works perfect. I normalized...

Homework Statement Here is the prompt: Write a program that does the following: Welcome the user to the game and ask them if they want to play. They should type y or n for yes or no. Store this value in a char variable. If they type y, continue on with the game. If they type n, print the...

I'm trying to code a script for a character in my game. This will tell the character if the player is in front or behind them. Basically I know the coordinates of the character and their angle of rotation (if rotated 45 deg, that is where they are looking) Perpendicular to their angle is a...

How do I show that the payoff function πi isn´t continuous? Why do best replies not always exist?

There is a card game called Yu-Gi-Oh. Apparently the company from what I understand is requesting all the online card game simulator programs to be removed. Why would they do this? Now no one can practice playing their cards for the real life tournaments. They have an official game but you...

The thought just struck my mind, while I was reading "The art and craft of problem solving", whether a game of chess can be topologically defended and is topologically invariant. For example a game play where only the pawn has been moved to E3 is some sort of topological figure and the initial...

How can game sounds tracks be produced? How can they found singer and lyrics for the games. How can the song and the music be in harmony with the game? I am also wondering about the lyrics and the singer of this game soundtrack. Thank you.

You mysteriously find yourself alone deep in the Canadian woods in summer. The terrain is mountainous with a stream nearby. You are wearing a t-shirt, jeans and sneakers. You reach for the crackling radio and make out a voice saying help will reach you in 40 days. You are able to pick 8 items...

I'm trying to write some code to generate plausible star systems, but so far, I only have a main sequence star generator, and even with that I don't know how good the mass-radius relationships are. So, I'm coming here to ask for some formulas or pointers as to where I can go to find the math to...