Guessing about Guessing: Practical Strategies for Card Guessing with Feedback. Issue 7 (9th August 2022)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Guessing about Guessing: Practical Strategies for Card Guessing with Feedback. Issue 7 (9th August 2022)
- Main Title:
- Guessing about Guessing: Practical Strategies for Card Guessing with Feedback
- Authors:
- Diaconis, Persi
Graham, Ron
Spiro, Sam - Abstract:
- Abstract: In simple card games, cards are dealt one at a time and the player guesses each card sequentially. We study problems where feedback (e.g., correct/incorrect) is given after each guess. For decks with repeated values (as in blackjack where suits do not matter), the optimal strategy differs from the "greedy strategy" (of guessing a most likely card each round). Further, both optimal and greedy strategies are far too complicated for real-time use by human players. Our main results show that simple heuristics perform close to optimal.
- Is Part Of:
- American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 129:Issue 7(2022)
- Journal:
- American Mathematical Monthly
- Issue:
- Volume 129:Issue 7(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 129, Issue 7 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 129
- Issue:
- 7
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0129-0007-0000
- Page Start:
- 607
- Page End:
- 622
- Publication Date:
- 2022-08-09
- Subjects:
- Primary 60C05
Mathematics -- Periodicals
510.5 - Journal URLs:
- https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/uamm20 ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/00029890.2022.2069986 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0002-9890
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