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12471051 No.12471051 [Reply] [Original]

You should be able to solve this

>> No.12471066

>game theory
/sci/ - Science & Math
get out

>> No.12471071

Pay your friend to tell you in advance what one he is going to do each time, and do the one that beats his each time. Then you will have 100 wins.

>> No.12471072

>>12471066
Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interaction among rational decision-makers.

>> No.12471074

>>12471072
bait

>> No.12471075

Pay your friend to tell you in advance what one he is going to do each time, and do the one that beats his each time. Then you will have 100 wins, unless he is a liar, in which case you will only have 99 wins because the 100th time he will no longer have an incentive to maintain your trust (but you may still have 100 wins if you can predict how he will act and/or just get lucky).

>> No.12471081

>>12471066
>game theory isn't a branch of mathematics
if not mathematics then where would game theory belong?

>> No.12471197

>>12471081
Obviously psychology

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>>12471051
>conspire with him to win everytime with paper
>share half the money

>> No.12471214

Play randomly.

>> No.12471234

>>12471051
you can't solve this as a game theory problem without knowing your partner's motivations, so it just becomes one of those gay lateral thinking puzzles instead, like the rest of this thread is providing answers for.

>> No.12471258

>>12471234
>partner's motivations
If at all motivated by money opponent will be biased to paper away from rock so you should play 100 scissors.

>> No.12471262

>>12471072
Rock Paper Scissors is also a game of psychological mastery. All of the types enter into this competent field to be decimated by their mental superiors. The most satisfying hng is when facing someone with a plan. They don't make eye contact and rehearse the moves in their head over and over. Right from square one you know their first two throws. It is said that no strategy survives first contact with the enemy and so it is. After this twice humiliation, the plan is out the window and they start playing, but too slow. This isn't a game for the faint or daft. This would be a textbook win for the highest competitors as greed would consume all others.
The cash reward would be a pittance amongst the best. Coursing through our veins is at least five hundred million years(500,000,000) of winners. Every winner has quenched another's mighty thirst for life out of habit. You really think some half breed, the dead men walking, will win with a calculator?
Every rule in this game points to a weak femoid obsessed with worldly gain and notoriety. The fierce have no need for this. The rules we play are simple: one throw, winner lives and loser dies. What is the game theory solution for that nerds?
>inb4 don't play cut dick tucked up in ass

>> No.12471282

>>12471258
your partner can obviously just catch on and beat you every round lol.

>>12471262
>one throw
just play random lol.

there is no "optimal" way to play rock paper scissors because how you should play depends on how your opponent is playing. the most reliable way to play is to throw random every hand because then your chance of coming out on top is exactly 50% and you can't get gamed by your opponent. Any non-random strategy can be defeated by strategies built against it. There are stable configurations, but they are not unique.

>> No.12471297

>>12471051
Pay friend 200 dollars to pick paper every time.
Pick scissors every time until 100.
You win the challenge and neither of you lost money.
Go to the pub with your mate and laugh at OPs shitty scenario over a pint.
Get arrested for breaking the coof containment protocols.

>> No.12471326

>>12471051
For n greater than 2
you, friend
rock, scissors
rock, scissors
rock, paper
repeat until n games has been played.

>> No.12471578

>>12471051
Change game's name to Rock Papers Scissors Fuck you
Fuck you hand is $100 and choose said fuck you hand to get $100