Ganzfried Gleans

I previously posted several about an interesting final jeopardy wagering situation that arose in the final game of James Holzhauer’s big winning streak in 2019. Last night another interesting scenario arose in the final game of the Jeopardy Masters series. You can watch the…

Consider an imperfect-information extensive-form game, such as poker. We know that every such game has at least one Nash equilibrium, by Nash’s existence theorem. (Technically Nash’s theorem applies just to perfect-information normal-form…

In the Weakest Link game show, eight contestants answer a series of trivia questions to accumulate a “bank” of money, with one contestant (the “weakest link”) voted off at each round. When there are 2 contestants remaining, they face off for a series of 5 questions each, with the winner…

Recently the following game was proposed on twitter:

5 poker players go to house in WSOP. There is one master unbelievable room everybody wants. To determine who gets the room everybody writes a number 1–10. Whoever writes the highest UNIQUE number gets…