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  2. Taxman (mathematical game) - Wikipedia

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    The game is played between two players on a board consisting of whole numbered tokens labeled 1 through N, where N is any positive whole number. During each turn, one player (deemed the tax payer) takes a number from the board, and the other player (deemed the taxman) removes all remaining factors of the tax payer's number from the board.

  3. Ages of Three Children puzzle - Wikipedia

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    The prime factors of 72 are 2, 2, 2, 3 and 3; in other words, 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 3 = 72. This gives the following triplets of possible solutions: Age one Age two

  4. Muggins - Wikipedia

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    Muggins is characterised by its 'fives' scoring system, the 'muggins rule' and the fact that there is no spinner. The aims of the game are to domino, i.e. be first to shed all one's hand tiles, and, during play, to score points by playing a tile that makes the total number of pips on all endpoints of the layout equal to a multiple of five.

  5. Repeated game - Wikipedia

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    In game theory, a repeated game (or iterated game) is an extensive form game that consists of a number of repetitions of some base game (called a stage game). The stage game is usually one of the well-studied 2-person games. Repeated games capture the idea that a player will have to take into account the impact of their current action on the ...

  6. Fizz buzz - Wikipedia

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    Fizz buzz is a group word game for children to teach them about division. [1] Players take turns to count incrementally, replacing any number divisible by three with the word "fizz", and any number divisible by five with the word "buzz", and any number divisible by both three and five with the word "fizzbuzz".

  7. Rubinstein bargaining model - Wikipedia

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    Consider the typical Rubinstein bargaining game in which two players decide how to divide a pie of size 1. An offer by a player takes the form x = (x 1, x 2) with x 1 + x 2 = 1 and ,. Assume the players discount at the geometric rate of d, which can be interpreted as cost of delay or "pie spoiling". That is, 1 step later, the pie is worth d ...

  8. Multiple (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a multiple is the product of any quantity and an integer. [1] In other words, for the quantities a and b, it can be said that b is a multiple of a if b = na for some integer n, which is called the multiplier. If a is not zero, this is equivalent to saying that / is an integer.

  9. Multi-stage game - Wikipedia

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    In game theory, a multi-stage game is a sequence of several simultaneous games played one after the other. [1] This is a generalization of a repeated game : a repeated game is a special case of a multi-stage game, in which the stage games are identical.