Game Definition and 651 Threads

ok I hope nobody gets mad at me for asking about this but here goes: So I've recently become pretty interested in probability, I'm wondering if there are any cool probability card game out there. I thinking of making my own (don't really know enough though probably) when I thought "I bet...

How many of you play the game?

Hello all, I was thinking about how a certain probability would be calculated and the answer is eluding me. It has been a number of years since I have taken a statistics and probabilities class so I am a little rusty. Anyway, to jump right into my question: How would one figure out the...

OK. I have been fighting with my pen and paper for hours trying to fathom this: I have been thinking about that childs game where there is a post, and two players. On the post is a string with a tennis ball attached at the top, each player has a tennis raquet and they hit the ball around the...

Although this problem may look like homework, I assure you it is not. It is a question that arose from a trading card game that I am stuck on. The problem is as follows (with simplified cards) You have a deck of 53 cards, and 11 of those cards are red and 42 are black. If you were to randomly...

Quote: "Let G = <N, (A_i), (u_i)> be such a strategic game. We denote by \Delta (A_i ) the set of probability distributions over A_i and refer to a member of \Delta (A_i ) as a mixed strategy of player i; we assume that the players' mixed strategies are independent randomizations. " So...

The Phillies game isn't on local TV today, it's only on MLB tv. That's just not right. Americans should not have to live this way.

I own a Sony PSP, and am curious as to how it works on a quantum level, from knowing what part the electrons in the circuit board work to what part the photons play in me being able to see what's displayed on the screen.

All of the pictures submitted this week follow a sporting event theme. Well done to everyone who participated. And congratulations to the future winners, to be archived for all history in the PF Photo Contest Winners thread. Vote for the picture that best represents our theme this week. 1...

I was wondering for which two-player/two-option games (symmetric, ...?) definite solutions for the best strategy can be found? (like a single equation for which probability for the choices to use)

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE="5"]Take Me Out To A Ball Game This week, all your pictures must be on sports and/or sporting events. Administrative update: I have selected MK to run the PF Photo Contest for the few weeks that I had mentioned earlier in another thread (4/26-5/17). I am sure he...

Most Americans know of this game show hosted by Howie Mandel. A friend of the Child of Evo's has just signed a contract to be one of the models that opens a briefcase and supposedly she will get paid $600,000.00. That's just sick.

Hello all, I stumbled upon a basic probability type question from the movie 21 and was hoping someone could provide me with an explanation. The question is as follows: If i have 3 doors and behind one of the doors is a car and behind the other 2 doors is nothing and i have to choose one...

Homework Statement in checkers you jump over the enemys piece and land on a square after that. i'm making this game in c++ using sdl~ i just want to know how to get the square i have jumped over using the end square and start square locations Homework Equations The Attempt at a...

Hi guys I hope I'm in the right subforum. I was thinking of a way to map a house or outside area with radar or some other method, and then using that info to create a map for a game. So my question is, what are the different methods available for sensing the surrounding area and creating a...

I know this isn't a forum your average Gamer would visit, however I think it would be nice to get a wider variety of opinions. Me and a team of programmers and modellers have gotten together recently and we are very serious about completing a game. It will be extremely difficult to compete...

I am just playing around with physics simulation in c++... and my latest obsession is simulating rigid body motion (specifically rotation) with no external torque, for now. The equations of motion in question are the 'Euler equations' which relate the angular acceleration (omega-dot) around any...

Hi, I'm making a car simulation game not just a simple one, one that closely matches the kinds of Gran Turismo, therefore, it has to be extremely precise and realistic and use real life physics. I have been searching around for information regarding this subject and was able to get some...

Hi guys. A question came to me as I'm playing a card game with 4 players. Let's say the full deck (of 52 playing cards) are all dealt to each player, one at a time into player's hands in a direction. All the cards are fully dealt before a player views the cards in his hands. Assume player...

Anyone watching the game? 1-1 right now (36th minute), two beautiful goals ...

I thought this was a fun game. http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/future-weapons/games/cannon/cannon.html"

When a single person shouts at a football game, the sound intensity level at the center of the field is 63.3dB. When all the people shout together, the intensity level increases to 115dB. Assuming that each person generates the same sound intensity at the center of the field, how many people are...

Around 3 years back, I had a stall setup at my school's fun fair. It was a simple gambling setup. You put your money on either of 3 things: i] Above 7, ii] Lucky 7 or iii] Below 7. And then, you roll the dice [2 of 'em]. If you put on either below 7 or above 7 and the dice sums up to below 7...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory I am confused about this. Can someone give me an example of a game with perfect information in which neither player has a winning strategy?

What is it that puts one persons thoughts above another's? please do not quote some thoughts from people that have not been tested beyond reasonable doubt.

*** CLICK HERE TO VOTE *** So, for the last few years I've been doing this "Game of the Year" poll with this voting script I made. This poll is different from most polls you've seen-- in normal polls like this you have maybe five or so options, and you pick the one you like best. This poll...

It's been a while since I last did this, and we've had a bunch of new members sign up since, so let's have another round of the same, wot? As usual, I refer the newcomers to earlier rounds of this game: Part I Part II Solutions to Part II HOW THE GAME WORKS: I make up cryptic...

The Game ---------------- We used to play a card game called 24 that a friend of mine invented. Remove all the face cards from the deck so that you're left with nothing but 2-10's and Ace's. Ace's are worth 1, everything else is at its face value. Each of the two players (this only really...

[SOLVED] Probability of Pairings in Chess Game Homework Statement The chess clubs of two schools consist of, respectively, 8 and 9 players. Four members from each club are randomly chosen to participate in a contest between the two schools. The chosen players from one team are then randomly...

Bagatelle Board One has a square board with nails that one rolls a steel ball down from top to bottom. At the bottom there is a box as long as the board that has a number of receptacles for the ball to fall into. The board is held upright and slanted at 45 degrees, so that it rolls down...

Hello all physicists/engineers! I am currently in my last year of college and will be leaving to go to university next year (in the U.K). I am having real trouble deciding whcih course I want to take, so just to be on the safe side I have decided to take physics, just plain physics (maybe...

No thread yet on the NFL? Between two channels, three game winning field goals in less than two minutes. Denver-Buffalo was first and best. They made a first down and could have spiked the ball to stop the clock. Instead, they rush the field goal team out with about 10 seconds on the...

http://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=102478&provider=top I am thinking something similar was also pulled off at the Rose Bowl in the 60's. Hmm this kid may become the next Karl Rove. edit: Ah ha history repeats itself. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/pranks/rosebowl.html

Using a dictionary, pick a world. The more obscure and hard-to-understand the better. Post it. The next person posts the definition of the previous word, a funny comment about it and then a new word. You may consult a dictionary. I'll start: Contumelious

Apart from all the path breaking works by Neumann and Nash on this subject, i was wondering if one could actually use this to explain the behaviour of subatomic particles or vice versa which by all means tend to attain stability.If one can work back from evolution games down to the actions of...

The "What is It?" Game continued This picture reminded me of our old "What is It?" game. This was in the news recently. Can anyone guess what it is? If you guess it, you or another member can post their "what is it?". It can be either a picture or a question. I'll even give a hint "think...

Сайн байна уу? Хэрвээ энд манай Монголчууд ордог бол. хэ хэ Та нар энд C++ дээр хийсэн жижиг сажиг тоглоомынхоо соорсыг энд тавьж болно шүү! Hello all. Lets putting here you c++ game source! sorry my bad english!

Hi, I am writting a book about programming game physics engines, much along the lines of "Game Physics Engine Development" by Ian Millington, however the focus of the book is Networked physics engines. At the current time I have not been able to find a great deal of literature on...

Hi, In a n-person game theory.. I have encountered these terms, superadditivity and imputation, however i do not understand much their definition. Anyone have a simple explanation to this terms? Somebody here knows where can I find a dictionary of mathematical expressions/equations in...

this game is a varient of the wikipedia game, though it teaches a strange lesson. use dictionary.com or someother dictionary site and take any word, look up its definition and then look up those definitions until you get back to the original word... what it shows is that words are defined...

Has anybody here ever played this game when you were bored? First you go on Wikipedia and select some random article. Then, you find a link on the page and go to the article it links to. Continue this process for long enough and you'll eventually end up at some article which you would never...

I ve got this simple problem and I can can not find the solution. Two men play head and tails. Each man flips the coin n times, every time he has head, he should add one point to his score. At the end, they compare the scores, whose score has more points , the man is the winner. A is the...

this is my game based on my wheel theory, the question is how many non-repetitive combinations of letters that link (eg. ab, bc, cd, and ag, gy, ly ect.) can be found in this game, i don't know it myself and i figure this is the best place to post the question since it's a bit involved. bonus...

hey just wondering there are some computer strategy games like Empire Earth where beating hard computers seems very impossible , but how can some manage i mean, in this game, the computer can manage troops on the whole map while you can only control one zone at a time and the pc attacks...

Has anyone ever heard of this: http://www.frogstar.com/fault/index.asp I thought it would be interesting to play here on PF, but I'm not sure how it would work with multiple players. Any ideas?

Very interesting clip about a scientist who mapped neuron cell firing patterns in a monkey's brain while the monkey was playing a simple video game. The scientist then makes a breakthrough discovery that you will see...

I am designing a map game, using PHP and MYSQL. I don't know how to make the players who sign-in to the website to see other players who are also connected to the site and be able to chat with one another. I want to design the game in such a way that 2 players can play with each other and...

You know the one -- your plane crashes on a desert island: you can take -10 novels -10 albums -10 DVD's [SIZE="1"](I'll even be nicer than most and also allow you to take a "friend" with you.. and also, the plane was filled with cargo containing toothpaste and deodorant and stuff) hope this...

So I want to screencast something along the lines of . I'm using CamStudio. The problem is that the resulting video fades into black and fades out of it A LOT, resulting in (a) eyestrain and (b) an incomplete video. Can anyone suggest any solutions such that I could screencast such a video?

Hi. I was wondering if it's possible to calculate bullet accuracy in terms of percentage in a series of ranges, given bullet's max effective range, a series of ranges, bullet mass and velocity with gravity (assuming no wind resistance, or any frictional resistance). I'm looking for a...