Game Definition and 693 Threads

I wanted to model a particular game and determine the probability for each team to win. I have no idea how to do the determination of probability part, but here's the game broken down: There are 3 types of players, T's, D's and I's. The amount of each type of player is as follows: 1/8 D...

Hello! (Wasntme) I am looking at this exercise: A board game can be played with $3,4,5 \text{ or } 6$ players. There is a winner at each round of the game. A group of $115$ children decides to organize a tournament of this game,for the emergence of the champion of the game,so that at each...

I've started to make a "Snake" game (example: http://www.kongregate.com/games/uchiha/classic-snake-game) and reached a dead end. I'm not sure the programmatically best way of figuring out where the snake's "food" should next appear. It should of course appear anywhere on the screen that doesn't...

Context: Question: Code I have thusfar: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> #include <string.h> #define MAX_STAT enum { STR, DEX, INT, CON, WIS, CHA, LEVEL, MAX_STAT }; struct Character { int level; int class; int HP...

Hey all, have a problem to solve for my new game game. really appreciate if someone can help me solve this issue: * i need to calculate the probability for a given combination 1. Total number of balls in the box = 80 2. Total number of chosen balls 45 3. for simplicity we have only...

I came across this very fun and interesting game called Microshogi. I will not describe the rules because they're here on wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_shogi I advise not using Japanese characters or pentagonal pieces. Just make rectangle pieces, use english letters and use a...

Howdy, all! So recently I got into disputes with players about a situation that occurred in a tabletop game we are playing. I won't bore you with the details but it boils down to this: The effectiveness of an empty, wooden sheath in penetrating and impaling the human heart. A bit of...

A card game involves dealing 3 types of cards to players. There are 6 type A cards, 9 type B cards and 6 type C cards. Each type A card has one matching counter. In a game with 5 players, one card of each type is selected at random and hidden without knowledge. Each player then chooses a...

C# Windows Form "Game": Movement All I wanted to do was to make a block move right/left across the window. I'm using VS 2010. No compiler errors and when I run it, it doesn't respond to any input. using System; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace Game { public partial class Form1...

1. Homework Statement In a carnival game, a rectangular board is set up with red circles 1 inch in diameter painted on it in a grid. The centers of the circles are 3 inches apart and the centers of the outer rows of circles are 1.5 inches from the closest edge of the board. A player...

Tell three truths about yourself and one lie. Everyone gets one guess which is the lie. First to guess correctly gets to go next. I'll go first: 1. I water skied in the Bering Sea. 2. I was deported from Bulgaria. 3. I literally ran into a moose. 4. I was shot by a drunk cop. Guess...

So I was thinking what would be the chances of two players on separate pool tables playing the exact same game of pool? So player 1 breaks and the balls are scattered. What are the chances that player 2 breaks and the balls just so happen to scatter and come to rest in the same position as...

A deck of 25 cards consists of 5 suits, 5 cards of each suit, no other values. Cards are face down and randomized, and revealed one at a time. The only other rule is that the game ends when at least one card of each suit is revealed (meaning, at most 21 cards will be revealed). I'm trying...

I want to be an electrical engineer or mining engineer when I grow up and I want to get a BS in both of those fields, but I was just wondering if I could get a job as a video game designer with a degree in electrical engineering.

Project journeyman , found this classic game at a yard sale, Anyone ever played it? Wanna know? what was the point of it in terms of navigating through it? What is the person playing it supposed to be doing in order to go through the entire game? The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time is the...

I just finished season 1! I'm a huge fan now!

I go to UC Davis and was thinking about switching to the computer science/engineering major(currently in bioengineering right now) with the idea that I could get into the video game programming/development world. I have had limited experience with coding (just some minor things to control little...

Hello there, I hope I'm posting in the right section. I have been doing some work on evolutionary game theory and poker. I will give a brief description of how I got here. I have eight strategies i = 1, 2, \ldots, 8 and the eight proportions of the population playing each strategy is...

I would like to know which strategies survive iterative deletion of strictly dominated strategies D E F A 0, 1 0, 0 10, 4/5 B 3, 1 1, 2 0, 1 C 1, 5/2 2, 3/2 0, 2 Since there are only weakly dominated strategies, the answer is A, B, C and D, E, F. Is this correct?*

I'm hoping someone can help me figure out how to describe all winning strategies for "Player 1" in the following game: Consider a board with $n$ tiles arranged in a row. Player 1 and Player 2 each have $d$ turns, and Player 1 always goes first. On the first turn, Player 1 "issues an order,"...

Me and my group for our class are planning on making a can crusher for our project. What makes ours so unique is the ending, Plinko game. We are trying to make a Plinko game out of the can after its ejected from the crusher. My part of the project is the Plinko game. My group suggested that we...

I was numerically solving the wave equation earlier just to produce a simple illustration of a vibrating string and my computer was working pretty hard. Then I realized how many video games nowadays have such awesome graphics with things like water, waves, motion in general, etc... Are these...

. . . . . . . . . . Answer GameA. Alexander Pope Q. What drink contains brandy, cream, and holy water?A. Bell & Howell Q. Describe Pavlov's experiment.A. 9W Q. Do you spell your name with a "V", Herr Wagner?A. Plague, Famine, Pestilence, and Death. Q. Name three deductible expenses and a capital...

Homework Statement Given a standard chess board consisting of 64 squares with each game taking a total of 40 moves. Calculate the total number of games which can be played. You are to assume a stalemate situation occurring on the 40th move a completed game.The Attempt at a Solution So there are...

I recently learned about this old game, 20 Questions. In this game, one of the players, the Answerer, thinks of an object, a common noun, and other players take turns to ask Yes/No question to him. Like, Is it less than 2kg ? , Does it run on electricity, Is it worth over 1000$? etc. If they...

Hey all, so my university's game theory course never runs due to lack of students signing up for it, so I'm taking it upon myself to learn what I can about this fascinating subject. I'm specifically looking for a game theory text which is: a) introductory b) for upper-level math undergraduates...

Choose a passenger randomly and give him/her a pistol. Make sure all passengers go through the same black room, and come out, and it is the black room in which a random passenger will be given a gun. It could be the most plausible and logical security measure that ever conceived or it...

Suppose a bubble with some small mass and constant velocity hits a bundle of "bubbles"- the collision is unusual- there is no dynamic friction but the point of contact sticks- they are springy so both compress by a third before returning to their former shape. The new total bundle can't...

I have an Xbox360, not a PS3, but my friend let me borrow his PS3 and his copy of The Last of Us after he finished playing it, and I have to say that I have never had a game, let alone any fictional work, ever affect me emotionally in such a way. Oddly enough, the game made me come upon a...

I have currently completed the requirements for my Physics BSc major and have completed a math minor and only have two classes left to complete my CS minor. This late in the game I have been doing a lot of thinking and have decided that graduate school in physics seems like the wrong path for...

When I was a kid my dad bought a game console "Dendy" but I think it was essentially a modified version of some kind of Nintendo. There was a game that I really loved to play but I do'nt remember it's name. The only thing I remember about it is the player is a guy who walks in some kind of house...

Homework Statement There is a large\infinite amount of balls in a basket to pick from. Each ball in the basket is with the same probability (33.33...%) either black, white or gray. No other colors exist. You first pick 4 balls out of the basket. Then you pick 2 more balls out of...

In a game of Risk, the rules are: The rules for determining how many dice a player may roll: 1. The attacker may roll as many dice as the number of attacking pieces he is using, to a maximum of 3. If A>3, the attacker continues to roll 3 dice per turn. 2. The defender may roll as many...

Homework Statement In a game of Risk, the rules are: The rules for determining how many dice a player may roll: 1. The attacker may roll as many dice as the number of attacking pieces he is using, to a maximum of 3. If A>3, the attacker continues to roll 3 dice per turn. 2. The defender...

The goal of this game is to get your opponents life points down to 0 before he gets yours down to 0. You take turns hitting each other until one persons health is at 0. The variables are: Attack (accuracy of hitting instead of missing) Strength (how high you can hit) Defense (determines...

Homework Statement Two players: A and B. Players can take 1 or 2 stones per turn. The player who takes the last stone wins. The question is: is there any winning strategy with 5 stones?, does it change with 1000 stones?. Homework Equations None. The Attempt at a Solution If...

I've just thought of a way to get the right komi in the game of go. Let 2 programs that plays randomly play each other millions of times, for different values of komi. A game should take less than 1 second I guess since there's basically almost no computing process for each move. Then "make...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP0cUBi4hwE Loved the book, but the trailer looks terrible. From what I can tell it will suffer a similar fate as the Hunger Games in the sense that the magic of the book was the interesting internal dialogue and complex moral issues (also in Dune). Internal...

I have always wanted to get a college education in physics or quantumn mechanics or the like. I have been through the navy nuke program and I am intelligent. What holds me back is that I have made some bad choices and have a record now. I am wondering if I am wasting my time wanting to get an...

In order to help with server load, we are splitting up the larger threads. This is a continuation of the original Where's That Landmark? thread located here https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=270543&page=480

In the game ArmA 2 they try to simulate ballistics and have some kind of drag model. I would like to try to find out how it works. I collected the following data from a bullet fired from a rifle in the game. Initial Velocity: 900 m/s Time of flight: 0.000 sec 100m Velocity: 819 m/s...

Let, a person is taking part in a quiz competition. For each question in the quiz, there are 3 answers, and for each correct answer he gets 1 point. When he gets 5 points, he wins the game. If he gives 4 consecutive wrong answers, then his points resets to zero (i.e. if his score is now 4 and...

Let, a person is taking part in a quiz competition. For each questions in the quiz, there are 3 answers, and for each correct answer he gets 1 point. When he gets 5 points, he wins the game. But, if he gives 2 consecutive wrong answers, then his points resets to zero (i.e. if his score is now...

Hii Everyone, A a box contains $N$ balls. In each step, we remove some number of balls from the box according to some distribution, where the distributions are independent but not identical. We don't know any other details of the distributions but their averages. It means in...

"The Game" by Neil Strauss? Has anyone here read "The Game" by Neil Strauss? In the book, Neil Strauss writes how he went from a nerd to a world-class pick-up artist. I read the first 2/3s of it, after that it's just drama and whining. Read wikipedia for more information. Initially I was...

So, thrones is coming tomorrow night. Anyone excited about that?

Hello there, I believe there must be some avid gamers around these parts, so perhaps someone can help me remember this jewel I've been searching for. The game is an RPG with top-down 3D view like Baldurs Gate. I would believe it is from the 1995 - early 2000s era (my guess). In the...

Homework Statement You are the quarterback for the Quinte Saints Football team. You are in the middle of the COSSA gold medal game and you see your receiver is wide open down the field beside the sideline. If he catches the ball, you win the game. However, the biggest guy Joey from the...

Homework Statement You are the quarterback for the Quinte Saints Football team. You are in the middle of the COSSA gold medal game and you see your receiver is wide open down the field beside the sideline. If he catches the ball, you win the game. However, the biggest guy Joey from the...

Suppose you throw a dice and on the first throw you win if you score 1 , you lose if you score 2 & 3 and have to throw the dice again if you hit 4 , 5 or 6.If you have to throw the dice again the rules changes and you win if you hit 1 but lose if you hit 2.If you hit any other number , you...