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A general position set of a graph $G$ is a set of vertices $S$ in $G$ such that no three vertices from $S$ lie on a common shortest path. In this paper we introduce and study the general position achievement game. The game is played on a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Sandi Klavžar , Neethu P. K. , Ullas Chandran S.

We revisit the game in which each of several players chooses a pattern and then a coin is flipped repeatedly until one of these patterns is generated. In particular, we demonstrate how to compute the probability of any one player winning…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Jan Vrbik , Paul Vrbik

The game of SET is a popular card game in which the objective is to form Sets using cards from a special deck. In this paper we study single- and multi-round variations of this game from the computational complexity point of view and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-09-26 Michael Lampis , Valia Mitsou

We study two-player games with alternating moves played on infinite trees. Our main focus is on the case where the trees are full (regular) and the winning set is open (with respect to the product topology on the tree). Gale and Stewart…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Dean Kraizberg

We discuss ``puzzles of prisoners and hats`` with infinitely many prisoners and more than two hat colors. Assuming that the set of hat colors is equipped with a commutative group structure, we prove strategic equivalence among puzzles of…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Masaru Kada , Souji Shizuma

We determine the exact probabilities of the different isomorphism classes of tournaments that result from random sets of three and four independent dice drawn from the balanced uniform model of 3-sided dice.

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Kent E. Morrison

The $k$-majority game is played with $n$ numbered balls, each coloured with one of two colours. It is given that there are at least $k$ balls of the majority colour, where $k$ is a fixed integer greater than $n/2$. On each turn the player…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-25 John R. Britnell , Mark Wildon

The Plurality problem - introduced by Aigner \cite{A2004} - has many variants. In this article we deal with the following version: suppose we are given $n$ balls, each of them colored by one of three colors. A \textit{plurality ball} is one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-22 Dániel Gerbner , Dániel Lenger , Máté Vizer

We study the Levine hat problem, a cooperative puzzle introduced by Lionel Levine in 2010, in which $n \geq 2$ players must simultaneously identify a black hat on their own infinite stack, each seeing only their teammates' stacks. While the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Clément Bouquet , Salah Chikhi , Timothé Charles , Yanghao Zhou , Eric Wang

The network coloring game has been proposed in the literature of social sciences as a model for conflict-resolution circumstances. The players of the game are the vertices of a graph with $n$ vertices and maximum degree $\Delta$. The game…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Nikolaos Fryganiotis , Symeon Papavassiliou , Christos Pelekis

The game of SET is one of the best mathematical games ever. It is no wonder that people have tried to generalize it. We discuss existing generalizations of the game of SET to different groups. We concentrate on two types of generalization:…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Andrey Boris Khesin , Tanya Khovanova

We study a game in which one keeps flipping a coin until a given finite string of heads and tails occurs. We find the expected number of coin flips to end the game when the ending string consists of at most four maximal runs of heads or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Jia Huang

In 2024, Daniel Litt posed a simple coinflip game pitting Alice's "Heads-Heads" vs Bob's "Heads-Tails": who is more likely to win if they score 1 point per occurrence of their substring in a sequence of n fair coinflips? This attracted over…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Svante Janson , Mihai Nica , Simon Segert

The multiplication game is a two-person game in which each player chooses a positive integer without knowledge of the other player's number. The two numbers are then multiplied together and the first digit of the product determines the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Kent E. Morrison

Game Theory concepts have been successfully applied in a wide variety of domains over the past decade. Sports and games are one of the popular areas of game theory application owing to its merits and benefits in solving complex scenarios.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Ambareesh Ravi , Atharva Gokhale , Anchit Nagwekar

We introduce a three-player nonlocal game, with a finite number of classical questions and answers, such that the optimal success probability of $1$ in the game can only be achieved in the limit of strategies using arbitrarily…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Zhengfeng Ji , Debbie Leung , Thomas Vidick

The General Lotto game is a popular variant of the famous Colonel Blotto game, in which two opposing players allocate limited resources over many battlefields. In this paper, we consider incomplete and asymmetric information formulations…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Keith Paarporn , Rahul Chandan , Mahnoosh Alizadeh , Jason R. Marden

The majority problem is a special case of the heavy hitters problem. Given a collection of coloured balls, the task is to identify the majority colour or state that no such colour exists. Whilst the special case of two-colours has been well…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Anthony Kleerekoper

The convex grabbing game is a game where two players, Alice and Bob, alternate taking extremal points from the convex hull of a point set on the plane. Rational weights are given to the points. The goal of each player is to maximize the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-13 Martin Dvorak , Sara Nicholson

Two players alternate tossing a biased coin where the probability of getting heads is p. The current player is awarded alpha points for tails and alpha+beta for heads. The first player reaching n points wins. For a completely unfair coin…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-12-15 Robert W. Chen , Burton Rosenberg