Game Definition and 651 Threads

hey, I'm in a grade 12 probability and statistics class, and I've been assigned to create a board game and calculate the probability of winning. All my ideas get to complicated and I am finding my self confused so I am trying to keep it relatively simple. It is a board game where the first...

The concept of the game: You are presented with the titles of two papers. One paper is a real one posted at the arXiv. The other is fake, with the title automatically generated using a context-free grammar. Your job: Guess which is the real paper. After guessing you will be presented with...

Fun Game Theory, Guessing a Number With a "Twist" You and I are playing a game. I begin by picking an integer from 1 to 2011 (inclusive). On each turn you try to guess my number. I then tells you whether your guess is too high, too low, or correct. If your guess is not correct, I add or...

Simple Nim Game Due Tonight. Please Help! Design and implement a Nim class and a NimGame application to allow two human players to play the game of Nim. The game starts with four piles of stones. The first pile has 3 stones, the second pile has 5 stones, the third pile has 7 stones, and the...

Hello Just took on a new hobby..being game design know a little c# and decided to try my hand at xna...the problem is I am also trying my hand at vectors and matrices also, as I know this with gaming goes hand in hand. Kinda picking up the basics to vectors but with matrices not got a great...

Hi, I've played Fantasy Football and Fantasy Hockey. Now, I'm looking for a interactive, virtual simulation election games. Any suggestion?

This seems to be a fairly simple probability question but it's stumping me for some reason. "You flip a fair coin until you get a head and win x dollars, where x is the number of flips it takes to get a head. (e.g. H = win $1; TH = win $2; TTH = win $3, and so on.) How much should you pay to...

Suppose A and B play over and over , independently a game which each time results in either a win for A , a win for B or draw (meaning no decision) with probabilities P(A), P(B) and P(D). Suppose they keep playing until the first game that does not result in a draw , and call the winner of that...

I am trying to program the elastic collision response between a ball and an immovable obstacle (such as a rock with infinite mass). However I can't seem to figure out the angle at which the ball would bounce off of the object. Both objects are to be considered as circles, with their positions...

Homework Statement In a game of pool, the cue ball strikes another ball of the same mass and initially at rest. After the collision, the cue ball moves at 3.10 m/s along a line making an angle of 27.0° with its original direction of motion, and the second ball has a speed of 2.30 m/s. Find...

anyone who wants to play a game of chess with me ?

In the card game Snap, two players each start with half of a shuffled deck. Alternately, each player turns up the top card of their pile. When the top cards of the face-up piles match (but are obviously different suits), the first person to say “snap” gets both face-up piles. When a player...

Kurdt sent me the link to this game yesterday. This game is rated E for Evo. In other words, it's fun and easy. Uhm, not that I am. :rolleyes: Anyway, go here http://zazka.com/file.php?f=381. Go to *Crush the Castle* and click *Play*, click "New Game", and go forth. The first castle...

Homework Statement Homework Equations Px = mVcostheta Py = mVsintheta Theta = tan-1(y/x) Magnitude of P = (Px^2 + Py^2)^(1/2) The Attempt at a Solution Px = .165*2.84cos64.6 = .201 N*s Py = .165*2.84sin64.6 = .4233 N*s a) Theta2 = tan-1(-.4233/.201) = 64.6 degrees b)...

Homework Statement In the game of Risk, battles are decided by the rolling of dice. Suppose that there are two armies, red and blue. The red army rolls three dice and the blue army rolls two dice. Whichever army rolls the highest number (on a single die) is declared the winner. In the...

As many of you have already guessed I refer to Einstein and his famous quote that the only way to win at roulette will be to steal money from the casino...obviously meaning that you can't devise a mathematical strategy to beat roulette. Over the years of course some people have tried to beat the...

I am trying to teach myself the basic theory behind combinatorial game theory regarding impartial games, the solution to Nim, and the Sprague-Grundy theorem. I understand most of it, but I have a few questions about parts that are still unclear to me. 1. Why are Nim-sums computed using binary...

1) Problem 1 For every i; j with 1<=i; j<=8 find a nim heap which is equivalent to the i x j game of Chop. CHOP Game Start with an i x j array of boxes viewed as a plank which is secured only at the lower left hand corner. Each player is a pirate, and they alternate turns. On each turn a...

Homework Statement (The December 31 Game) Two players alternately name dates. On each move, a player can increase the month or the day of the month, but not both. The starting position is January 1, and the player who names December 31 wins. According to the rules, the first player can start...

First exam results are back, and I need to "up my game" I'm a freshman engineering major. I just got the scores back for my calc I and physics I tests today, and I got an 89 on both of them. I know that's a pretty good grade (above the class average), but it was the first test and will...

Hi! I created an amoeba game where you can play against the computer. The AI searches for patterns such as "xxxxx", "oxxxxo", (as in 5-in-a-row, and 4 in a row with both sides open), and the rest (a total of 28 patterns) I could think of that lead the way to putting 5 marks in a row. Each...

I came across an article in the "Electronics Weekly" titled Game theory teaches robots how to deceive It asks, "Are there ethical issues in teaching robots to lie? Yes and no. Why can't robots learn how to lie? We do it all the time. Since robots will have to deal with humans and work...

So I'm taking a course on game theory and as an intro he left us with this question. I'd like to have it solved fornext class as it is for bonus marks.I'm not sure how to add an attachment here so I will describe the game and board and hopefully someone can tell me how to upload a photo in the...

Hi, taking a chance here... i recently played a game. This game involved you starting out with a marble in 3d space, and u had to design a path for it to reach a finish line, with ropes/gears/what have you... i was HOOKED, but i don't remember what its called...=/ any help would be appreciated

I'm trying to write Jscript code that will interact with a MUD for me. A MUD is a Multi-User Dungeon. It's a text-based online game. The server sends the names and descriptions of places and things for the player to interact with. What I need to know is: 1) How do I pass information from an...

In the office I work, there is a popular game when someone wants to give something away. When a person has something to give away, they send out an email to 'n' people. The email directs the recipients to try and guess the lowest positive integer they can that is unique amoung all the responses...

Homework Statement I've decided to research Conway's Game of Life for my science project. and I can't seem to find any equations that would fit as Life's physical laws. Any ideas would be gratefully received. (Please keep in mind that I am merely a high schooler) Homework Equations...

Google invested $100-200 million in social gaming company. What does it mean for the future of gaming?http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualnavigator.wordpress.com&blog=11498882&post=123&subd=virtualnavigator&ref=&feed=1 More...

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 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 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...

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 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...