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| x Rock, Paper, Scissors |
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Nontransitive game | 2 | 3 |
Rock-paper-scissors is a hand game played by two people. The game is also known as roshambo, or another ordering of the three items (with "stone" sometimes substituting for "rock").
The game is often used as a choosing method in a way similar to...
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| x Battle of the sexes | Sequential game | 2 | 2 |
In game theory, battle of the sexes (BoS), also called Bach or Stravinsky, is a two-player coordination game. Imagine a couple that agreed to meet this evening, but cannot recall if they will be attending the opera or a football match (and the fact...
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| x Fair division | Perfect information | ||||
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| x Centipede game |
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Sequential game | 2 |
In game theory, the centipede game, first introduced by Rosenthal (1981), is an extensive form game in which two players take turns choosing either to take a slightly larger share of a slowly increasing pot, or to pass the pot to the other player....
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| x Chicken |
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Symmetric game | 2 | 2 |
The game of chicken, also known as the hawk-dove game, is an influential model of conflict for two players in game theory. The principle of the game is that while each player prefers not to yield to the other, the worst possible outcome occurs when...
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| x Coordination game |
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| x Cournot competition |
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Cournot competition is an economic model used to describe an industry structure in which companies compete on the amount of output they will produce, which they decide on independently of each other and at the same time. It is named after Antoine...
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| x Deadlock |
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A deadlock is a situation in which two or more competing actions are each waiting for the other to finish, and thus neither ever does.
In an operating system, a deadlock is a situation which occurs when a process enters a waiting state because a...
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| x Dictator game | Zero-sum | 2 | |||
| x Diner's dilemma | 2 |
In game theory, the Unscrupulous diner's dilemma (or just Diner's dilemma) is an n-player prisoner's dilemma. The situation imagined is that several individuals go out to eat, and prior to ordering they agree to split the check equally between all...
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| x Dollar auction |
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Sequential game | 2 | 2 |
The dollar auction is a non-zero sum sequential game designed by economist Martin Shubik to illustrate a paradox brought about by traditional rational choice theory in which players with perfect information in the game are compelled to make an...
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| x El Farol bar problem | 2 | ||||
| x Example of a game without a value | Perfect information | 2 |
In game theory, and in particular the study of zero-sum continuous games, it is commonly assumed that a game has a minimax value. This is the expected value to one of the players when both play a perfect strategy (which is to choose from a...
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| x Guess 2/3 of the average | Zero-sum |
In game theory, Guess 2/3 of the average is a game where several people guess what 2/3 of the average of their guesses will be, and where the numbers are restricted to the real numbers between 0 and 100, inclusive. The winner is the one closest to...
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| x Kuhn poker | Sequential game | 2 | |||
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| x Matching pennies |
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Zero-sum | 2 | 2 |
Matching pennies is the name for a simple example game used in game theory. It is the two strategy equivalent of Rock, Paper, Scissors. Matching pennies is used primarily to illustrate the concept of mixed strategies and a mixed strategy Nash...
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| x Minority game | 2 |
Minority Game is a game proposed by Yi-Cheng Zhang and Damien Challet from the University of Fribourg. It is inspired by the El Farol bar problem, which is a simple model that shows how (selfish) players cooperate with each other in the absence of...
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| x Nash bargaining game | 2 | ||||
| x Peace war game |
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An iterated game originally played in academic groups and by computer simulation for years to study possible strategies of cooperation and aggression. As peace makers became richer over time it became clear that making war had greater costs than...
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| x Pirate game |
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Sequential game |
The pirate game is a simple mathematical game. It illustrates how, if assumptions conforming to a homo economicus model of human behaviour hold, outcomes may be surprising. It is a multi-player version of the ultimatum game.
There are 5 rational...
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| x Prisoner's dilemma |
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Symmetric game | 2 | 2 | |
| x Screening game | Sequential game |
A screening game is a two-player principal–agent type game used in economic and game theoretical modeling. Principal–agent problems are situations where there are two players whose interests are not necessarily at ends, but where complete honesty is...
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| x Stag hunt |
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Symmetric game | 2 | 2 |
In game theory, the stag hunt is a game which describes a conflict between safety and social cooperation. Other names for it or its variants include "assurance game", "coordination game", and "trust dilemma". Jean-Jacques Rousseau described a...
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| x Traveler's dilemma | 2 | 1 | |||
| x Trust game | Sequential game | 2 |
Trust game in experimental economics extend the dictator game one step by having the reward that the dictator can (unilaterally) split between herself and a partner partially decided by an initial gift from that partner.
The initial move is from...
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| x Volunteer's dilemma | 2 |
The volunteer's dilemma game models a situation in which each of N players faces the decision of either making a small sacrifice from which all will benefit, or freeriding.
One example is a scenario in which the electricity has gone out for an...
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| x War of attrition | 2 | 2 | |||
| x Ultimatum game | Sequential game | 2 |
The ultimatum game is a game often played in economic experiments in which two players interact to decide how to divide a sum of money that is given to them. The first player proposes how to divide the sum between the two players, and the second...
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| x Princess and monster game | Zero-sum | 2 |
In game theory, the princess and monster game is a pursuit-evasion game played by two players in a region. The game was devised by Rufus Isaacs and published in his book Differential Games (1965) as follows. "The monster searches for the princess,...
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