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Two-player graph games are a fundamental model for reasoning about the interaction of agents. These games are played between two players who move a token along a graph. In bidding games, the players have some monetary budget, and at each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Shaull Almagor , Guy Avni , Neta Dafni

Combinatorial Game Theory(CGT)is a branch of Game Theory that has developed largely independently of Economic Game Theory (EGT), and is concerned with deep mathematical properties of two-player zero-sum games recursively defined over…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Urban Larsson , Reshef Meir , Yair Zick

For combinatorial games, temperature is a measure of the volatility, that is, by how much the advantage can change. Typically, the temperature has been measured for individual positions within specific games. In this paper, we give the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-23 Svenja Huntemann , Richard J. Nowakowski , Carlos Pereira dos Santos

Combinatorial game theory (CGT), as introduced by Berlekamp, Conway and Guy, involves two players who move alternately in a perfect information, zero-sum game, and there are no chance devices. Also the games have the finite descent property…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Melissa Huggan , Richard J. Nowakowski , Paul Ottaway

We introduce a new combinatorial game, named Triangle Game. In this game, a directed $3$-cycle graph is given, and tokens are placed on each vertex. The player chooses an edge and takes at least one token from the initial vertex. At the…

Temperature of combinatorial games have been long studied since when Conway established the modern combinatorial game theory, and there are several variations of the concepts. In this article, we focus on one of the classical versions of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Katsuyuki Bando , Eitetsu Ken , Kota Morikawa

The Ultimatum Game is a famous sequential, two-player game intensely studied in Game Theory. A proposer can offer a certain fraction of some amount of a valuable good, for example, money. A responder can either accept, in which case the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-10 Stefan Schuster

Over the years, numerous experiments have been accumulated to show that cooperation is not casual and depends on the payoffs of the game. These findings suggest that humans have attitude to cooperation by nature and the same person may act…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Valerio Capraro

We consider the class of "well-tempered" integer-valued scoring games, which have the property that the parity of the length of the game is independent of the line of play. We consider disjunctive sums of these games, and develop a theory…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-16 Will Johnson

A new representation of Game Theory is developed in this paper. State of players is represented by a density matrix, and payoff function is a set of hermitian operators, which when applied onto the density matrix give the payoff of players.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jinshan Wu

We study zero-sum (combinatorial) games, within the framework of so-called Richman auctions (Lazarus et al. 1996) namely, we modify the alternating play scoring ruleset Cumulative Subtraction (CS) (Cohensius et al. 2019), to a discrete…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Urban Larsson , Neel Patel , Ravi Kant Rai

Combinatorial Game Theory has also been called `additive game theory', whenever the analysis involves sums of independent game components. Such {\em disjunctive sums} invoke comparison between games, which allows abstract values to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Urban Larsson , Richard J. Nowakowski , Carlos P. Santos

In this paper, we propose a Quantum variation of combinatorial games, generalizing the Quantum Tic-Tac-Toe proposed by Allan Goff. A combinatorial game is a two-player game with no chance and no hidden information, such as Go or Chess. In…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Paul Dorbec , Mehdi Mhalla

The_Robin_Hood_ game is played as follows: On day i, the Sheriff puts s(i) bags of gold in the cave. On night i, Robin removes r(i) bags from the cave. The game is played for each natural nymber i. Robin wins if each bag which was put in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-08-02 Boaz Tsaban

Conventional game theory assumes that players are perfectly rational. In a realistic situation, however, players are rarely perfectly rational. This bounded rationality is one of the main reasons why the predictions of Nash equilibrium in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-01 Mojtaba Madadi Asl , Mehdi Sadeghi

The theory of combinatorial game (like board games) and the theory of social games (where one looks for Nash equilibria) are normally considered as two separate theories. Here we shall see what comes out of combining the ideas. The central…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-05-28 Peter Harremoes

We propose a logical framework combining a game-theoretic study of abilities of agents to achieve quantitative objectives in multi-player games by optimizing payoffs or preferences on outcomes with a logical analysis of the abilities of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Nils Bulling , Valentin Goranko

Combinatorial games are two-player games of pure strategy where the players, usually called Left and Right, move alternately. In this paper, we introduce Cheating Robot games. These arise from simultaneous-play combinatorial games where one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Melissa A. Huggan , Richard J. Nowakowski

Cooperative game theory studies how to allocate the joint value generated by a set of players. These games are typically analyzed using the characteristic function form with transferable utility, which represents the value attainable by…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-12-18 Ata Atay , Christian Trudeau

We study variations of classical combinatorial games on two finite heaps of tokens, a.k.a. \emph{subtraction games}. Given non-negative integers $p_1,q_1, p_2,q_2$, where $p_1q_2 > q_1p_2$, $p_1>0$ and $q_2>0$, two players alternate in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-09 Urban Larsson
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