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As part of a series of discussions on Games of Strategy , I've written here about games with sequential moves - those in which players ...

My recent posts on game theory have focused on games with discrete strategies, which is to say that players are faced with a finite number ...

In an earlier post regarding theory of simultaneous move games , I concluded with an example of a game between two tennis players that d...

Some time ago, the design team of Dr. Wictz and I started discussing the book Games of Strategy  by Dixit, Skeath, and Riley.  I wrote on ...

I have been thinking about the game theory construct for the share auction in Chicago Express (designer Harry Wu, publisher Queen ). The q...

In this second post in a series exploring games of strategy (begun last month ), designers Aaron Honsowetz, Austin Smokowicz, and I explore ...

Over three years ago, I wrote about my effort to approach a simple three-player race game using game theory.  Economist and game designer ...

Earlier this week I was listening to Episode 36 of the Flip the Table podcast , which discussed the obscure 1979 Bruce Jenner Decathlon Ga...

[I've been on business travel this week, so in the absence of original material, I'm reposting an article from last spring when I wa...

We had a family session of Incan Gold (or, more precisely, my home-made knock-off) this afternoon.  An interesting development came up when ...