Hey everybody! Last week, we talked about a number of different strategies that can be used to win at the game of Rock-Paper Scissors (if you missed it, you can find it here). This week, we are going to go a step further and see how these strategies can be applied to other games. It’s…
Read MoreCut, Crush, and Cover: The Strategies of Rock-Paper-Scissors
Rock-Paper-Scissors is one of those games that is so ubiquitous that it’s hard to imagine a world without it. As a tool for making random decisions, it ranks up there with flipping a coin or shaking a magic 8 ball. The difference, however, is that there is no World Championship of Flipping Coins. Despite it’s…
Read MoreLuck Vs Skill: The False Dichotomy
When I started researching for this article, my original plan was to talk mainly about a category of games known as “Solved Games”, or games that have a mathematically proven optimal strategy. I was going to use that article to talk about what it means to have solved a game, different games that have been…
Read MoreSchedule Change
Hey everybody! I’m very sorry, but there will not be any new article for today. However, that doesn’t mean that there will not be any articles this week – I just can no longer get them out on Thursdays. Due to my schedule this semester, I am planning on moving the weekly blog to Saturday…
Read MoreHow Good is it? Basic Tips for Evaluating Magic Cards
Ever since I started playing Yu-Gi-Oh with my friends in middle-school, I have been trying to design my own cards. I started out making new cards for the characters on the show to use (what if they made a fusion of Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Red-Eyes B. Dragon?!), and then moved on to making my…
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