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user-inactivated  ·  3706 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Jeopardy's Controversial New Champion [bonus hubwheel appearance scroll down]

#notgametheory as in his strategy has very little to do with defined game theory. He's using basic probability theory, I guess. Or common sense.





JakobVirgil  ·  3706 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I am not so sure.

you can make Nash payoff diagrams of nearly anything.

(not that they predict human behavior very well)

user-inactivated  ·  3706 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Jeopardy would be fairly easy to do that for as things go. Limited scope.

But he's not. He just knows that daily doubles show up in certain rows more often and guesses those. So yeah, $1000 is going to be a "best response" to $200 every time, but he didn't find the EQ.

JakobVirgil  ·  3706 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Betting to tie in final jeopardy was were I was thinking he was applying it.

I love the show but I have not watched in a few years.

user-inactivated  ·  3706 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, of course. I agree.