Game Definition and 693 Threads

Let's play a game :smile: We are going North. Now and then I will post information about our trip, but I will do it each time in two phases – first, I will post just few pictures of things we have seen – and next time I will be able to log in I will explain what you see and where we were...

Here's a good way to help children understand the stock market: play a game. Write out cards that say STOCK. Make enough cards for each player. Pass out fake money to each player. Get dice out and decide which face values correspond to how much money will be spent on a stock. Make sure the...

A and B play a game of golf ( where the player with the lowest score wins). The deck is divided so that 17 cards goes to player A, 17 to player B, and the remaining 17 to the draw pile. Jacks and queens add 10 to the score. Aces add nine, and each numerical card adds a score equivalent to the...

I was not sure where to post this. It didn't seem to fit in the homework/self-study category, and I believe it is thought-provoking enough to warrant posting in the general forums. I am sorry if I am wrong. In game theory, 2-person non-zero-sum games with 2n strategies can be graphically...

I have friends that say chess doesn't have any luck aspect to it. I see where they are coming from but I don't really agree with them. So for me it's not a matter of if chess is a game of luck it's more a question of how much? I personally would guess that chess is very much a game of luck so...

I am to give a short presentation to high school students about game theory. How can I make it as to not make it boring for them? I don't think I'm going to use much mathematics because I doubt at their level that they're going to understand it that much if I delve too deep into the mathematics.

Hello, I will be a rising high school senior next year, and I'm looking for something worthwhile to learn over this summer. I'm really interested in learning mathematical game theory. I was wondering on the prerequisites before learning game theory (I've done maths up to linear algebra and real...

I am trying to work out but am having no luck with the following. It two players have 5 cards each from which they can choose. The cards are marked Legs, Body, Head, L Arm, Right arm What are the odds of the picking player choosing a card the other does not pick if they are picking...

Homework Statement I am trying to study a mixed-strategy phenomenon form the book: Game Theory Evolving:A Problem-Centered Introduction to Modeling Strategic Interaction (Second Edition) by Herbert Gintis. There is an example (The Prisoner's Dilemma) which looks as follows...

Homework Statement Hi, I was wondering if I could get some help with these questions. Homework Equations n/a The Attempt at a Solution a) I (think) I can do this one, mutual best responses would suggest that the nash equilbria are (a,a), (a,b) and (b,c) b) Now this is...

I think all politicians running for office should play this game. http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy2/index2.html Free demo :biggrin:

This script looks easy but from staring at it for countless times and referring to a book, I can't figure it out...I'm really stressing out Anyways these are the instructions...So you need 1 main script and then a function script 1.You are playing a game where you roll a die 12 times. In...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9AkZWp3mDc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiXTLgZ-O6g The Milgram Experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

My goal is just a simple bot that could "play" or do basic functions without human aid, on a online game of some sort, for example facebook's farmville or something similar.

You can choose the level of difficulty. This is something you might want to share with your kids. http://www.history.com/interactives/place-the-state-game

Can I use a computational maths/physics degree to work in the video game industry?

I am currently programming a 2-dimensional game and am creating a class that will allow for collision detection with any polygon defined by a set of points. The actual collision detection was easy, however i am having trouble coming up with an equation to describe the resulting velocity vector...

Recently my economics class and john nash have lead to a curious interest in Game Theory. I'm obviously looking for an introduction, but all the ones I found on amazon seem to elude any mathematics, which is my main passion. So I ask for a proper introduction to Game Theory which is not afraid...

Homework Statement Quite a long intro to the question so I thought it easier to include it as an image: http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/7264/78941753.jpg http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/7780/39557949.jpg The Attempt at a Solution I can do Q2.3 and get the payoff matrix...

Homework Statement Quite a long intro to the question so I thought it easier to include it as an image: http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/7264/78941753.jpg http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/7780/39557949.jpg The Attempt at a Solution I can do Q2.3 and get the payoff matrix given when V=4...

Bought a Wii a month ago. Got a gift certif for Xmas. Want ideas about what game to buy. I'm not really into Sports, so the default Sports disc doesn't interest me much (though bowling is fun). The Wii Fit Board also comes with a bunch of games but I'm looking for something else. I'm not...

Has anyone tried, or heard of someone trying, to use a disk changer with their PC? I have seen several DVD/CD changers that can be used as a standard player on your television, but I haven't found anything about using one for games or media on a computer. I'm wondering if one can be...

Searched the forums and found two posts related to what I want to know but did not help me enough to answer my question...probably do not know enough about probability and do not know the right keywords. The game I play people usually have 60 card decks, you can have more then 60 but 60 is...

Forum Game -- What's that movie? Similar to the landmark game. First to correctly identify the movie posts a new pic for a new movie. You are then responsible for giving clues (after a couple of days or so if its really a stumper), and deciding the next winner. Here's an easy one to start:

a group of 1000 players are asked to write a number greater than 0. the player who writes the lowest non-repeated number wins a prize. how would you determine which number to pick?

Suppose that a casino introduces a game in which a player bets $1 and can either win $2 or lose it, both with equal chances. The game ends when the player runs out of money, or when he wins $4. (a) Build a transition matrix for the game, and show that it is not a regular transition matrix...

Well, what does game theory say about this? Game theory, depending on the odds, suggests that you might promote taking the N1H1 flu shot for others, while obstaining yourself. What action should you take as an individial or member of a group?

hi nerds!i was wondering if somebody would kindly explain to me what game theory is and its applications and uses! i guess it is related to marketing. please give me informations and details. i tried googling and wiki but they diidnt help.

Making it as a Theoretician - can it be done so late in "the game"? Hi everyone, I'm going to ask a somewhat-rhetorical question, in pursuit of some measure of reassurance (but not gaurantee) that I'll make it as a theoretician. I'm studying, right now, at the M.S.-only grad program at...

Homework Statement Basketball player throws the ball form the middle of the court one second before the game ends. How much must the initial speed of the ball be and at what angle it must be thrown, if it should hit the basket at the exact time of siren without preceding reflection from board...

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Hi, I am putting together a scenario for a sci-fi computer game called Aurora and I am after some advice. I am trying to create a situation where Earth has perhaps 40-60 years before being destroyed or rendered uninhabitable. For the purposes of the scenario, the cause of this catastrophe of...

Welcome to the game of doors! Anchor: Alright then, you have three doors in front of you, A, B, C. Two of these three contain nothing, one contains the proof of the unified theory yet unknown to man :biggrin:. You can choose anyone door, which one do you choose? You: Uhmmm.. I think I'll go...

Homework Statement Sarah and Thomas each roll a die. Whoever gets the higher number wins; if they both roll they same number, neither wins. a. What is the probability that Thomas wins? b. If Sarah, rolls a 3 what is the probability that she wins? c. If Sarah rolls a 3 what is the...

Homework Statement You will assess the probability of a certain hand winning after the starting hands are dealt. You only need to consider two players at a time. (At no point are we considering betting or folding playing a part in winning) Starting Points -Try and watch some games of Texas...

\sumThe question is: You are involove in a game where two card are dealt consectively. Supposethat the dealer pays you $3of the second card dealt is a club, regardless of the first card and that you pay him $1 if the second card in not a club and the first card is not an ace. (othewise, no...

This is a situation that happened back in 2005. I never talked to her ever since, nor am I in love with her. I am just mad at the principle that she felt a need to abide within a framework of a certain "game" and "rules". Here is the thread that describes the situation in more detail...

You're playing a game of bridge with 4 people. You're dealing the cards, when suddenly the phone rings and you go pick it up. When you come back to the table, you can't remember who got the last card. How do you finish dealing the cards quickly and without counting the cards of any player, with...

I was playing Connect 4 the other day, and I started to wonder how you could fill the board entirely without connecting 4. I haven't tackled the problem so I don't know if it's of general interest at all, or if it yields any interesting results...but I thought I'd share it with you all...

Hello! Does anyone know of any decent resources for learning to intepret and construct Game theory and signalling games and their ilk? Thanks everyone n.b. something user friendly, preferably.

For 30 years string theorists have said string theory is the only game in town. It is the only known consistent theory of quantum gravity. LQG has not been shown to have GR in the low energy regime so it is not been shown to be even related to gravity. The only reply I've seen is that string...

I need help to answer this. In a game of two up, twqo coins are tossed, bets are placed on whether coins give even (HH or TT) or odss (HT or TH). In the previous 8 games, evens has occurred each time. What is the best bet on the ninth game? This is what i did but i don't think tis right P...

Just did this in NYC with my friends this past weekend. The game: You and your friends go out to dinner. At the end you collect everyone's credit card, put it into a napkin, and shake it up. You then ask the waitress/waiter to pull one credit card out. Who ever gets picked has to pay the...

I was doing some research on game theory and Kuhn Poker, and I read that Player 1 (the player that bet/check first) has many optimal strategies but player 2 only has one. Does anyone know what are the optimal strategies are for player 1? Because I tried searching the net but couldn't find...

Choose the number that is 80 percent of the average of all the numbers picked by players of this game. The valid range of choices are all real numbers from 0 to 100. The target number is determined by adding up all the choices of the players, dividing by the number of players, and...

Hello all. I apologize for not following the exact format requested... I honestly have little to no understanding of any of these subjects. I come here as member of a gaming community that has been presented with a problem as part of an ongoing puzzle. I hope I'm posting this in the most...

Hi, We are making a fill-in the squares bingo game. It is a 5x5 grid with a free space. If 50 people attend the function, how many words should be available for them to fill in the 24 empty squares? We want a good variation, but do not want to be there all night. I would appreciate any...

Interesting analysis of human behavior as to why belief in the supernatural has evolved: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=skeptic-agenticity

What time is it?? GAME TIME! NBA conference finals baby! Whom do you geeks support?? Personally, I'm with LA. Kobe is playing very well. On the other side, LeBron is stepping up and playing exceptionally too, but this time LA is going to take the championship. What do you think?

Post the next step in the sequence: http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2796/n36.gif I'm still working on a solution for this. As far as I see, the problem lies in discovering the rules of a game (I assume it is a game) that would produce such patterns in sequence.