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John and Peter play the following game using a regular chessboard. John thinks of 8 squares so that no two squares lie in the same row or in the same column. During each move Peter puts 8 rooks on the board so that they don't attack each other, and John points out all rooks that are located on...

I will ask the question first and give the reason why I'm asking after. Question: Approximately how fast can a 5'11" tall man weighing 195 lbs. fall towards the ground if he's 3 miles above the surface and has control over the winds of a category 5 hurricane storm to propell him downwards...

Hello, I have a question related to a specific situation. I've been playing a game called Overwatch and while I'm not the smartest there is in physics I'd like to understand it better. In Overwatch there is a character named Roadhog he wields a shotgun and a hook. Using this hook he can launch...

Homework Statement You are playing a game with two bells. Bell A rings according to a homogeneous poisson process at a rate r per hour and Bell B rings once at a time T that is uniformly distributed from 0 to 1 hr (inclusive). You get $1 each time A rings and can quit anytime but if B rings...

Hey everyone! This is my own personal project that I'm trying to get right but i ran into a bit of a problem. Here's the idea: I want to make a text based game where the player inputs data such as choices or numbers reflected what's asked of them from the program. The below program is...

I designed this game for my Data class but I'm having a lot of trouble calculating the expected profit per play of this game. We have taken up examples involving lottery tickets in which you have to calculate the profit and winning per ticket bought but I can't seem to apply the same concepts to...

This is going to sound really strange, but I don't want to have this question inside of me and never ask it. I love business/economics/game theory. However, the subject I've studied the most in my life at this point is physics. The question of what I want to write about for my PhD thesis is...

Hello! So for an assignment, we have to write a program for the pig dice game. You are to finish the program below that implements the dice game PIG played by 2 human players. Pig is a dice game where each player during their turn rolls a 6-sided die. If the player rolls a 2 through 6, they...

Let's see who can predict the future best! Reply to this thread with who you think will win (so not who you want to win). You can add a small justification if you like, but please do not get into a political discussion. Add the results of the electoral college and of the popular vote of the...

Hi, I am a student in the Netherlands, and I'll be attending university next year. However, I am doing some form of research on Quantum Computing with another student for our so-called "profielwerkstuk" but my understanding of Quantum Physics and math is sometimes not at the level that is...

I am having trouble removing the same cards from my hand in my game of oldMaid. this is my source: Mod note: Added code tags to preserve indentation, and modified code slightly (replacing index i in arrays with j. deck=[] suits = ['\u2660', '\u2661', '\u2662', '\u2663'] ranks =...

We consider the game: for each integer $m$, there is infinite supply of balls marked with the number $m$. At the beginning, we are given a disk full of balls and we throw the balls of the disk , one from each integer , each time. If we throw a ball that is marked with $m$ , we can replace it...

My plan is to have a Put/Call game on top of a Bitcoin Casino's Bankroll. The Casino already has a house edge of 1%. So a user can guess if it will rise or fall after a certain amount of games have been played on the Casino. Then the payout is adjusted accordingly. So if they call the bankroll...

The question is about a logic game between two competing players "Abelard and Heloise", Abelard is the name given to the "For all" quantifier and "Heloise" is the name given for the "There exists" quantifier. The statement is: Is ##(\forall x)(\forall y)(\forall z)(\exists u)(\exists v)(\forall...

So I have found this awesome resource called 'Teaching with Portal" For those who do not know, Portal is a puzzle game where players have to solve challenges given certain components in the environment that they are in. Somebody has created a "Teaching with Portal" lesson plans (found here)...

Inspired by Atari's arcade game "Lunar lander", I wrote a game for my Physics students to help them understand the Gravitation and Satellite Motion chapter. Although anyone can quickly learn to play the game, the advantage will go to those that develop an intuitive feel for orbital motion and...

Okay so i am building an incremental game and have a formula to work out how much it will cost to buy a set amount of buildings. This is required as each time you buy a building the price for that building goes up.This formula is as follows: ((BaseCost * (1.07^b - 1.07^a)) / 0.07)BaseCost =...

For those that are interested, the annual charity event "Summer Games Done Quick" starts tomorrow (July 3rd) and runs through July 10th. From the event website: Summer Games Done Quick is an annual charity video game marathon streamed live here and on Twitch.TV, with donations going directly to...

Hi PhysicsForums! I'm a game developer planning a project involving simplified, idealized orbital mechanics. I made this reddit post which did not generate the sort of response I was hoping for, but it summarizes my issue in greater detail for anyone curious...

Homework Statement -Admiral, your orders are to deploy the fleet into battle formation. -your fleet contains 1 battleship, 2 cruisers, 3 destroyers and 4 corvettes. -battleship requires 4 squares deployment, cruiser requires 3, destroyer requires 2, and corvette requires 1 -each ship...

Hello all, In a bag there are 18 paper notes. On five of them there is the digit 2, on seven the digit 3, and on six the digit 5. A man takes 3 notes by random. If the multiplicity of the notes is even, he wins 25 dollars. If for each game he pays 6 dollars, what is the average of profit he has...

Homework Statement Need help programming the game connect four in C#. Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution private Boolean check_winner_v() { Boolean winner = false; for (int i = 0; i < 7; i++) { for (int j = 0; j <...

Okay so I have made a game, it's a grid 10x10 going from 0-99. I need to find out the odds going up from 1 to 9 numbers. 9 is the limit or else it's possible for them to go in a diagonal line across the board and lose every time. That's because after 5-10 seconds a line will appear destroying 10...

I have seen many groups of scientists that make games for reaseatches in their field . Their is a game that collect data from players and these data are studied from physicists who are trying to build a quantum computer and others who are trying to discover something in physics theoretical or...

Homework Statement 8 friends are playing a tennis game together. How many different doubles games of tennis can they play? Homework Equations Combinations The Attempt at a Solution Well, I solved this problem by saying: we choose a group 4 people from 8 to play, so order is not important...

The night is dark and full of SPOILERS...... Okay, so in the last Game of Thrones episode, a massive twist involving what appears to me to be a bootstrap paradox occurred. I was wondering what anyone who saw thought about it and for those who did or didn't whether or not it makes sense. The only...

Hey all! I finally decided to code a puzzle kind-of game I came up with a few weeks ago and I would love it if you tried it. Let me know what you think ;) (It's hosted in my github page): http://marioqwe.github.io/

Homework Statement Create this website: In this game, there are four different coloured blocks (red, green, blue, and yellow). The computer hides three different coloured blocks from the user. The user then tries to guess the colours and the order of the blocks. After guessing the colour of...

For what it's worth, i created a little java program in relation to the clique problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clique_problem The idea was, to play around with it and maybe discover some better algorithm than the known ones used to discover all maximum cliques The code is quite small...

Hi, suppose two players are a playing a game with a non-square payoff matrix, like for example this one: ...a...b... A: (1,3) (1,0 B: (0,0) (2,1) C: (3,1) (0,3) How would one go about finding an optimal mixed strategy for something like this? I mean, if this was a 3x3 matrix then one could find...

I had this idea three years ago and wrote it in my Facebook note. Here is the link (in Indonesian, though). It is a Trading Card Game which utilizes Snakes and Ladders board game. For those who don't know what's a Trading Card Game (though I doubt you don't), see here. This game is inspired by...

How many different sequences of plays (moves of pieces) are possible in the first ten moves of a chess game? I have seen numbers that range up to 30!, but I have no real idea how those numbers are derived or whether trhey are valid. In fact, I doubt if a factorial even has anything to do with...

Hi! I am a big fan of science fiction, military fiction and all sorts of media covering this kind of topic. :smile: So I have played Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and in it there is this plot device called metallic archaea that basically enriches uranium quite easily. This invention...

What I should follow: Template: const int NUMROWS = 7;// CAN BE CHANGED FOR DIFFERENT GAME PLAY const int NUMCOLS = 10;// CAN BE CHANGED FOR DIFFERENT GAME PLAY const int TAILLENGTH = 15;// CAN BE CHANGED FOR DIFFERENT GAME PLAY struct _cell { char marker; int moveNumber; }; *** OTHER...

There is a card game where one player gets three cards and only uses two (the third one is discarded without showing to an opponenet), and the second player gets also three cards and uses only two, discarding the third card in the similar way - without showing. I am trying to enumerate all...

Not sure if anyone plays craps here, but I think one of the probabilities is wrong.The C and E bet which is a single roll on craps (2,3,12, four total possible combinations for 2 dice which has 36 total possible combinations) or on 11 (yo) which has two combinations for a total of six...

The instructions are given below: I'm thinking about using array to print out the board and then assign different values to display the bomb and where the user is. Then use a switch statement to make all the potential if statements i will use much cleaner. Am I on the right track at least? But...

Homework Statement Mr. Keller filled out a bracket for the NCAA national tournament, based on his knowledge of college basketball, he has a .61 probability of guessing anyone game correctly. What is the probability Mr. Keller will pick all 32 of the first round games correctly? Homework...

I'm very intrigued by game theory after watching a little puzzle on YouTube that was part of a game show. The solution or best strategy turned out to be solved through game theory. Anyhow, I further checked out an introduction to game theory online and there didn't seem to be any "regular'...

Hi everyone, i hope this is the right place to post this. Anyway, I'm creating a game, and I'm trying to calculate and project future car movement path based on steering angle of the wheels. By using equation: r = wheelbase / sin(steeringAngle) I'm able to calculate turning radius. But the...

You are to break a stick into 3 pieces, randomly, which also means the length of each portion is completely arbitrary. What is the probability of those 3 portions successfully forming a triangle of any kind?

I have a small mathematical game. A random number with uniform distribution between 1 and 10 is drawn, the player must guess any number except the the one drawn.The method I have found is by selecting the same number for every draw, the player will win 9 times out of 10. My question is , is...

So just a fun thread/question about the game Half life, and one of the events that happen in the game called a Resonance cascade. In the game, a Resonance Cascade is basically a "quantum event" where the crystal resonates at a certain frequency, causing other particles to resonate, cascading...

Hi all, I've been pondering this for some time and have decided to ask for help. My goal is to create a card game with "simulated" quantum entangled card deals, in which there must be 3 individual properties? For example red/black face, red/blue deck, high/low value. The goal would be to use the...

Hi all, I'm at a bit of a crossroads - I'm in a direct PhD program (in Astrophysics) right now, with the option of walking away with my Master's in September. In all of my research projects I've focused heavily on simulations (I know Python and Fortran, but not anything from the C family...

during my reading of ender's game, there was a device that could split molecules and cause a chain reaction of destruction. this seems possible yet impossible to me. can such a weapon be created and if so what causes the reaction to be so destructive.

Fallout 4 launch is just around the corner. Since I probably won't be leaving the house for a month or so after that, I should stock up on supplies. Preferred food should be keyboard and mouse friendly: food that can be eaten with one hand, without utensils. I already have some stock of pizza...

I would like to know what the community thinks about this game. Its a procedurally generated game set into a virtual Universe. As an Astronomy and Cosmology buff, I have a huge interest in this game and am quite excited about it's launch. I would be happy to see if the properties of the natural...

Has anyone ever played the online game Gravity Master? Would you say that the physics in that game resemble real life physics? Why or why not?

1. Play the first two levels of the game http://www.physicsgames.net/game/Gravity_Master.html Make the ball move in different ways. Write a one page report on whether the motion is like that of a ball in the real world. Explain your observations using classical mechanics.2. None provided.3...