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We analyze the following general version of the deterministic Hats game. Several sages wearing colored hats occupy the vertices of a graph. Each sage can have a hat of one of $k$ colors. Each sage tries to guess the color of his own hat…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Aleksei Latyshev , Konstantin Kokhas

The following general variant of deterministic Hats game is analyzed. Several sages wearing colored hats occupy the vertices of a graph, the $k$-th sage can have hats of one of $h(k)$ colors. Each sage tries to guess the color of his own…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Konstantin Kokhas , Aleksei Latyshev , Vadim Retinsky

The hat guessing number $HG(G)$ of a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices is defined in terms of the following game: $n$ players are placed on the $n$ vertices of $G$, each wearing a hat whose color is arbitrarily chosen from a set of $q$ possible…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Noga Alon , Jeremy Chizewer

Several sages wearing colored hats occupy the vertices of a graph. Each sage tries to guess the color of his own hat merely on the basis of observing the hats of his neighbours without exchanging any information. Each hat can have one of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-31 Konstantin Kokhas , Aleksei Latyshev

2023 undergraduate thesis on a deterministic "hat game." For a digraph $D$, each player stands on a vertex $v$, is assigned a hat from $h(v)$ possible colors, and makes $g(v)$ guesses of her hat's color based on her out-neighbors' hats. If…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-30 I. M. J. McInnis

Let $G$ be a graph with $n$ vertices. The {\em hat guessing number} of $G$ is defined in terms of the following game: There are $n$ players and one opponent. The opponent will wear one of the $q$ hats of different colors on the player's…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Lanchao Wang , Yaojun Chen

Consider the following hat guessing game: $n$ players are placed on $n$ vertices of a graph, each wearing a hat whose color is arbitrarily chosen from a set of $q$ possible colors. Each player can see the hat colors of his neighbors, but…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Noga Alon , Omri Ben-Eliezer , Chong Shangguan , Itzhak Tamo

We study the hat guessing game on graphs. In this game, a player is placed on each vertex $v$ of a graph $G$ and assigned a colored hat from $h(v)$ possible colors. Each player makes a deterministic guess on their hat color based on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Jeremy Chizewer , I. M. J. McInnis , Mehrdad Sohrabi , Shriya Kaistha

Assume $n$ players are placed on the $n$ vertices of a graph $G$. The following game was introduced by Winkler: An adversary puts a hat on each player, where each hat has a colour out of $q$ available colours. The players can see the hat of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Charlotte Knierim , Anders Martinsson , Raphael Steiner

We study the hat chromatic number of a graph defined in the following way: there is one player at each vertex of a loopless graph $G$, an adversary places a hat of one of $K$ colors on the head of each player, two players can see each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-13 Bartłomiej Bosek , Andrzej Dudek , Michał Farnik , Jarosław Grytczuk , Przemysław Mazur

A team of players plays the following game. After a strategy session, each player is randomly fitted with a blue or red hat. Then, without further communication, everybody can try to guess simultaneously his or her own hat color by looking…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-05-27 Rani Hod , Marcin Krzywkowski

N players are randomly fitted with a colored hat (q different colors). All players guess simultaneously the color of their own hat observing only the hat colors of the other N-1 players. The team wins if all players guess right. No…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Theo van Uem

In this article, we look at a hat-guessing game, in which each player must guess the color of their own hat while only seeing the hats of the other players. We focus on the case of two hat colors and a countably infinite number of players.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Nathaniel Eldredge

Several variations of hat guessing games have been popularly discussed in recreational mathematics. In a typical hat guessing game, after initially coordinating a strategy, each of $n$ players is assigned a hat from a given color set.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-01-20 Tengyu Ma , Xiaoming Sun , Huacheng Yu

We study a cooperative game in which each member of a team of $N$ players, wearing coloured hats and situated at the vertices of a cycle graph $C_N$, is guessing their own hat colour merely on the basis of observing the hats worn by their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-01 Witold W. Szczechla

Hat problems have recently become a popular topic in combinatorics and discrete mathematics. These have been shown to be strongly related to coding theory, network coding, and auctions. We consider the following version of the hat game,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-11 Maximilien Gadouleau , Nicholas Georgiou

We study a game puzzle that has enjoyed recent popularity among mathematicians, computer scientist, coding theorists and even the mass press. In the game, $n$ players are fitted with randomly assigned colored hats. Individual players can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Hendrik W. Lenstra , Gadiel Seroussi

We initiate the study of the hat guessing number of a graph where the adversary is only allowed to provide a proper coloring of the graph. This is the largest number $q$ for which there is a guessing strategy on each vertex that only…

We analyze the version of the deterministic Hats game. In this paper, we present new constructors, i.e. theorems that allow built winning strategies for the sages on different graphs. Using this technique we calculate the hat guessing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Aleksei Latyshev , Konstantin Kokhas

Consider the following hat guessing game. A bear sits on each vertex of a graph $G$, and a demon puts on each bear a hat colored by one of $h$ colors. Each bear sees only the hat colors of his neighbors. Based on this information only, each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Václav Blažej , Pavel Dvořák , Michal Opler
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