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  2. Strategies and skills of Jeopardy! champions - Wikipedia

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    [7] Speed is essential, as getting the opportunity to answer more clues first and right allows a player to pick more clues, thus increasing their chances of finding the Daily Doubles. [8] Winning contestants have a "just go for it" mentality and often push the buzzer before they know if they can answer correctly, trusting that they probably can.

  3. Guess 2/3 of the average - Wikipedia

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    In game theory, "guess ⁠ 2 / 3 of the average" is a game where players simultaneously select a real number between 0 and 100, inclusive. The winner of the game is the player(s) who select a number closest to ⁠ 2 / 3 of the average of numbers chosen by all players.

  4. List of games in game theory - Wikipedia

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    Games can have several features, a few of the most common are listed here. Number of players: Each person who makes a choice in a game or who receives a payoff from the outcome of those choices is a player. Strategies per player: In a game each player chooses from a set of possible actions, known as pure strategies. If the number is the same ...

  5. Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? (American game show)

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    After a subject is chosen and the question is revealed, the contestant can choose to "drop out" and leave with their winnings earned to that point instead of answering the question (unless they have used their "Peek" on that question in which case they must answer). If the player correctly answers all ten standard questions from the board, they ...

  6. Fictitious play - Wikipedia

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    The game is a potential game (Monderer and Shapley 1996-a,1996-b) The game has generic payoffs and is 2 × N (Berger 2005) Fictitious play does not always converge, however. Shapley (1964) proved that in the game pictured here (a nonzero-sum version of Rock, Paper, Scissors), if the players start by choosing (a, B), the play will cycle ...

  7. Monty Hall problem - Wikipedia

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    Determining the player's best strategy within a given set of other rules the host must follow is the type of problem studied in game theory. For example, if the host is not required to make the offer to switch the player may suspect the host is malicious and makes the offers more often if the player has initially selected the car.

  8. Strictly determined game - Wikipedia

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    In game theory, a strictly determined game is a two-player zero-sum game that has at least one Nash equilibrium with both players using pure strategies.The value of a strictly determined game is equal to the value of the equilibrium outcome.

  9. Strategy-stealing argument - Wikipedia

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    In the game of Chomp strategy stealing shows that the first player has a winning strategy in any rectangular board (other than 1x1). In the game of Sylver coinage, strategy stealing has been used to show that the first player can win in certain positions called "enders". [4] In all of these examples the proof reveals nothing about the actual ...