Game Definition and 651 Threads

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?

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...

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.

Why can't vista run DOS games?

Does anyone plan this game KenKen? It's like Sudoku or whatever except its... not. The idea is like Soduku but along with only having one of each number in every row/column (but not having to worry about a 3x3 brick having 1-9), the numbers have to satisfy a mathematical relation in certain...

I need to come up with an optimal algorithm for playing a popular guessing game which you might know by a handful of names like Bulls and Cows, Codebreaker, Guess-the-number, Mastermind(without repeating digits though). Here's the general definitions from the wiki page: I have thought about...

Hi, I don't if this is place to asks this. I am teaching myself game theory and I am just confused on how to convert extensive form to normal form when there are different stategies for player 2' depending on the player 1's stretegie. I understand if you were turning rock paper scissors into...

Hi i have any idea in physics 'i'm a game programmer who needs help i have this flash file http://www.knowingames.com/test_ik_06.swf" the original idea is that i can click any opint on any shape and it'd move as in the flash exmple i have no idea what is the name of this physics action...

from another thread on probability: What are the odds of two players getting three-of-a-kind in a game of poker? My first idea was to square the chance for three-of-a-kind for one player, but that doesn't seem right to me since it doesn't take the shared cards on the table into account.

Hi there, found a situation where I'm trying to find the probability of winning a ladder type game. There are 10 steps and the goal is to win all 10 steps without busting (i.e. a streak, given one exception below in event B). On any given step three different events can occur: Event A: 50%...

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/482128 Just follow the link and click "PLAY THIS GAME!". You need a recent version of flash player. Does it count as Artificial Intelligence?

A while back i was reading some stuff on game theory and it completely blew me away. So can someone tell me what game theory is general is and what quantum game theory is. Also if you can pleaes tell me what is the difference between the 2 and how it is used in economics.

hi everyone Problem: In (a simplified version of) bridge: each player is dealt 13 cards out of a full 52 card deck. Where an ace is worth 4 points; a king 3 points; a queen 2 points; and a jack 1 point. The rest of the cards (2-10) are worth 0 points. Question: what is the chance of...

The "LOST" drinking game I was watching LOST last night and something occurred that happens quite regularly on the show, and it got me thinking about drinking games. So I started a list of rules for a LOST drinking game. If anything on the following list happens while watching LOST, you...

Hi, I am not sure I am solving this problem the correct way, as my answer seems too low. Problem: In squash (a two player racquet game), the player who gets 9 points first wins the game. Whoever wins a rally gets the point, irrespective of who served the ball. I am ignoring other rules...

Homework Statement k so An experiment is done to determine the half-life of a radioactive substance that emits one beta particle for each decay process. Measurements show that an average of 8.4 beta particles are emitted each second by 2.5 milligrams of the substance. The atomic weight of the...

So: I do a "game of the year" poll every year. The poll gives you a list of nearly every game released last year, and asks you to make a list of your favorites (up to your top 20). If you would like to vote in it (and if it's okay for me to link this) you can click here to vote. For...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1102347/Chilling-game-hide-seek-hungry-polar-bear.html

Check it out. My best score was a 7. http://play.sockandawe.com/

It's been about a year now, so maybe it's time for another round, eh? HOW THE GAME WORKS: I make up cryptic clues, the answers to which are the usernames of different PF members. If you think you've got the answer, post it, along with the explanation. Sometimes, the answer may not be the...

HI all. Just looking for some ideas or pointers. I wish to pass on an idea to a friend. I want to look at Platonic shapes in 3D evolving through various iterations. I've played with pretty fractals and I've played with the 2D and 3D Game of Life games. both nice diversions :) on a rainy...

hi, I have been trying to make a game similar to pong in java. But I do not understand the concept of bouncing of the paddle. the paddle moves around in a circle. Here is the code that I have for the vector class that takes in the position of the paddle as a vector. public class Vector {...

I am currently in 9th grade and am a programmer, however trigonometry is next year... You could probably consider the engine of Asteroids "basic physics", so will post it here... Sorry if this is in the wrong section. I am creating the classic arcade game Asteroids with XNA Game Studio by...

Hi everyone, I'm currently a game programming student who is searching for a good online undergrad maths degree. I have read some threads here and someone (vanadium 50) mentioned there are two types of maths degrees: "ones for people not going on to graduate school, and ones for people who are"...

N+1 children in a circle, passes a box between them. Proabilty 0.5 to pass a box to the left or to the right. When all the chidlren "touches" the box, the game ends. Need to find distribution of random variable k, which define the k'th child to stop the game.

Is this game insane or what? I love this game, its Balling! :smile: :approve: Watch it in High Quality mode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX3yJRXpSOQ&feature=related

If you are given two dice and a gameboard how would you figure out the probability of landing on each of the individual squares in one game? Since there are two dice with 6 faces you can make a few statements without much math: 0 possibility of landing on first square, (1/6)*(1/6)...

Going into the weekend before the elections, here's a game for everyone! RULES: 1. Enter R (for McCain-Palin), D (for Obama-Biden), or X (for other) in the spaces provided beside the states, to submit your predictions of who will win which state in the 2008 Presidential Election. You may...

Hello. I'm entering to a software competition and I need to create an educative game, so I want to make it with physics. Anyone have an idea, suggestion or anything on what kind of game I could make. Thanks in advance P.S: I'm in 11th and the game is made with Visual Basic

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/SmartHome/story?id=5774961&page=1 I'm not too familiar with gaming , this game is supposedly going to employ a grand new concept.

Homework Statement Player 1 starts by choosing 0 or 1, then player 2, repeat infinitely many times and stick a decimal point in front and see the bit string as a real number between 0 and 1. If it's rational player 1 wins, irrational player 2 wins. Does either player have a winning strategy...