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from Part I - First Notions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2018

Samuel Bruce Smith
Affiliation:
St Joseph's University, Philadelphia
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Summary

The Web has an enormous number of free sites with games, blogs, and articles relevant to our study. We mention some sites featuring future topics.

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Games of chance including Poker, Blackjack, and Craps can be played at the site wizardofodds.com.

We will introduce the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma in Chapter 16. You can play the game at the website s3.boskent.com/prisoners-dilemma/fixed.html. This app implements state-of-the-art strategies for the game discovered by William Press and Freeman Dyson. There is a link to the article as well.

Nim can be played at www.kongregate.com/games/ricardorix/nim.

We will introduce a number of Nim-like games in Part II. You can try some of these now. The site www.cut-the-knot.org has, in particular, versions of Northcott's Game (Example 20.3) and Turning Turtles (Exercise 20.5).

We discuss the combinatorial games Chomp and Hex in Chapter 20. These games are available online as well. Chomp can be played www.math.ucla.edu/∼tom/Games/chomp.html. Hex is available at www.mazeworks.com/hex7/.

The site egwald.ca/operationsresearch/cooperative.php has a number of partial- conflict and zero-sum games.

The site www.270towin.com has interactive electoral maps.

Content

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy at plato.stanford.edu has extensive, accessible articles on game theory and social choice theory with references.

The organization FairVote.org is devoted to promoting fair elections. It advocates for the use of Instant Runoff Voting (the Hare Method).

The site rangevoting.org advocates for Range Voting. The site contains helpful information about other voting methods as well.

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  • Web Resources
  • Samuel Bruce Smith, St Joseph's University, Philadelphia
  • Book: Chance, Strategy, and Choice
  • Online publication: 11 May 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316026786.011
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  • Samuel Bruce Smith, St Joseph's University, Philadelphia
  • Book: Chance, Strategy, and Choice
  • Online publication: 11 May 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316026786.011
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  • Web Resources
  • Samuel Bruce Smith, St Joseph's University, Philadelphia
  • Book: Chance, Strategy, and Choice
  • Online publication: 11 May 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316026786.011
Available formats
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