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[[File:Boule01.jpg|thumb|300px|The pockets of many ''Boule'' wheels are decorated with horses recalling the ''Petits chev ...m the catalogue of the firm of Jost, Paris, 1905 (at the [[Swiss Museum of Games]])]] ...

...uteforcex.blogspot.co.uk/2008/03/1-4-24-dice-game.html |website=Adventures of BruteForce |access-date=29 March 2021 |date=20 March 2008}}</ref> ===Maximum probability of scoring=== ...

{{Short description|Class of mathematical game}} ...ap games]] that involve removing tokens (game pieces or stones) from heaps of tokens. ...

...f various natural and social phenomena, and has close ties to the theories of [[optimal control]] and [[set-valued analysis]]. ...onod]] to the differential inclusion <math>x '(t) \in F (x (t))</math> for chance and ...

[[File:ToadsAndFrogs.png|thumb|An example of the combinatorial game Toads And Frogs]]The [[combinatorial game]] '''Toads ...ition is known to be NP-hard. There are some open conjectures on the value of some remarkable positions. ...

...thumb|500px|right|A (finite) [[Random walk|drunkard's walk]] is an example of an absorbing Markov chain.<ref name=Grin>{{cite book | chapter-url = https://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/probability_book/Chapter11.pdf}}</ref>]] ...

...n knowledge. Intuitively, it shows that arbitrarily long but finite chains of "I know that you know that I know that you know..." are fundamentally diffe ...h>, with <math>p < 1/2</math>. The payoffs for each action profile in each of those states are: ...

...the pay-off for the players after interacting with them for a fixed number of rounds, while exchanging [[quantum state|quantum information]]. ...Let the quantum games begin|url=https://physicsworld.com/a/let-the-quantum-games-begin/|access-date=2020-11-11|website=Physics World|language=en-GB}}</ref> ...

{{Short description|Type of puzzle game}} ...nd has since been [[ported]] to many platforms. The player selects a group of matching-color blocks to make them disappear from the grid, with unsupporte ...

...her direction.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Figure 4—figure supplement 4. Effects of running speed on activity and wall distance tuning.|date=23 December 2015 | [[Strafing]] is the military practice of attacking ground targets from low-flying aircraft using aircraft-mounted [[ ...

{{Short description|Possible result of an experiment or trial}} ...periment). All of the possible outcomes of an experiment form the elements of a [[sample space]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www-math.bgsu.edu/~albert/m1 ...

...epeated head-to-head matchups, voters will (on average) prefer the results of a maximal lottery to the results produced by any other [[voting rule]]. ...ttp://dss.in.tum.de/files/brandt-research/welfare.pdf Arrovian Aggregation of Convex Preferences]. Econometrica. 88(2), pages 799-844, 2020.</ref> ...

{{Other uses|Law of small numbers (disambiguation)}} ...of small numbers'''" is the [[humor]]ous law that proclaims, in the words of [[Richard K. Guy]] (1988):<ref>{{cite journal ...

...er agent select a single item, and so on. A picking-sequence is a sequence of ''m'' agent-names, where each name determines what agent is the next to pic ...gain, then Bob again. This is more "fair" than AABB since it lets Bob more chance to get a better item. ...

J. Laurie Snell was the son of [[Roy J. Snell|Roy Snell]], an adventure author, and Lucille, a concert pia ...our fortune in a game, at each stage the game seems fair. So, we can think of a martingale as representing a fair game. If the expected value is less tha ...

...y 2016}}{{dubious|date=May 2016}}, who use them to set odds on the outcome of football matches. ...s, so that the highest rank is assigned to the strongest team. The outcome of the match can be predicted by comparing the opponents’ ranks. Several diffe ...

| tournament_format = Series of [[Single-elimination tournament]]s ...Prix]] 2019''' was a series of four [[chess]] tournaments that formed part of the qualification cycle for the [[World Chess Championship 2021]]. The top ...

[[File:Arsconj.gif|thumb|right|The cover page of {{lang|la|Ars Conjectandi}}]] ...all combinatorics by a plethora of mathematical historians. The importance of this early work had a large impact on both contemporary and later mathemati ...

{{Short description|Decision rule of maximizing utility}} ...ge, Mass.}}</ref>{{rp|sub.2.5}} It is a formal mathematical representation of the [[Utilitarianism|utilitarian]] philosophy, and is often justified by re ...

...to be the number of additional wins his team has achieved above the number of expected team wins if that player were substituted with a [[replacement-lev ...lue built up by a player reflects successful performance, a large quantity of playing time, or both. ...