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  2. Matching pennies - Wikipedia

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    Matching pennies is a non-cooperative game studied in game theory. It is played between two players, Even and Odd. Each player has a penny and must secretly turn the penny to heads or tails. The players then reveal their choices simultaneously. If the pennies match (both heads or both tails), then Even wins and keeps both pennies.

  3. Odds and evens (hand game) - Wikipedia

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    Even-Odd as an early form of roulette. This game was known by the Greeks (as artiazein) and Romans (as ludere par impar).In the 1858 Krünitzlexikon it says: [3] "The game Odds and Evens was very common amongst the Romans and was played either with tali, tesseris, or money and known as "Alea maior", or with nuts, beans and almonds and known as "Alea minor"."

  4. Word equation - Wikipedia

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    It should be also noted that even characterising the solution set of a single word equation is complicated. Hmelevskii [ 9 ] proved that, although the solutions to three-unknown constant-free equations can be given in terms of finite expressions with word and integer parameters, this is not true (in general) for four-unknown constant-free ...

  5. Odd and Even - Wikipedia

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    The game of Patriarchs does not involve building by 2s, but is in essence the same game as Odd and Even. Odd and Even is also closely related to Royal Cotillion, which has very similar game-play but has a reserve of sixteen cards. This in turn is closely related to Contradance (Cotillion) and the single-deck game Captured Queens (Quadrille ...

  6. Odds and evens - Wikipedia

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    Odds and evens (hand game), a two-player guessing game using fingers; Odds and evens (patience), a solitaire variant of the card game Royal Cotillion; Odds and Evens (film), a 1978 Italian action-comedy movie; Parity (mathematics), the concept of odd and even integers

  7. Balance puzzle - Wikipedia

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    2.b) The three remaining coins are heavier. In this case you now know that one of those three coins is the odd one out and that it is heavier. Take two of those three coins and weigh them against each other. If the balance tips then the heavier coin is the odd one out. If the two coins balance then the third coin not on the balance is the odd ...

  8. Game of the Day: WordChuck - AOL

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    From the makers of Just Words comes WordChuck, a multiplayer game that delivers hours of word scrambling fun! Make as many words as you can from the mixed up grid before time runs out.

  9. Solved game - Wikipedia

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    A solved game is a game whose outcome (win, lose or draw) can be correctly predicted from any position, assuming that both players play perfectly.This concept is usually applied to abstract strategy games, and especially to games with full information and no element of chance; solving such a game may use combinatorial game theory or computer assistance.