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Subject: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 04:00:46 01/31/03

I have written a very simple game in a webpage. All you have to do is to guess
whether the web page is hiding a coin in its left hand or its right one.

What I have found is that it's quite easy to beat this game at the default level
of 49 guesses - but at 101 guesses it's much harder - and I've yet to see it
beaten at 201 guesses.

You can beat it - you just have to maintain a high level of concentration as the
game progresses - but this becomes more difficult as time goes on. One tends to
become complacent and just start snapping out guesses - which is the quick way
to lose points (once you're above 60 guesses and the computer has sussed out
your patterns of selection).

http://mysite.freeserve.com/grahamlaight/jscript/GuessWhichHand.htm

note: at the moment, it works fine under IE, but might not run correctly under
Netscape. I have found the cause of the problem, and will correct it over the
weekend.

-g

Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game Russell Reagan 10:50:11 01/31/03
Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game Uri Blass 04:17:38 01/31/03
- Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game Graham Laight 04:29:29 01/31/03
  - Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game Fernando Alonso 05:46:53 01/31/03
    - Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game Graham Laight 07:19:57 01/31/03
      - Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game Uri Blass 12:18:58 01/31/03
      - Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game Jonas Cohonas 07:25:20 01/31/03
        
        Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game Graham Laight 07:33:53 01/31/03
        
        Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game Jonas Cohonas 07:35:56 01/31/03
        
        Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game Graham Laight 07:48:43 01/31/03
        
        Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game Jonas Cohonas 08:02:29 01/31/03
        
        Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game Graham Laight 08:10:56 01/31/03
        
        Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game Jonas Cohonas 08:22:21 01/31/03
        
        Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game Graham Laight 08:35:16 01/31/03
        
        Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game Fernando Alonso 10:28:38 01/31/03
        
        Experiment Fernando Alonso 10:36:13 01/31/03
        
        Announcement: Game Now Working Properly Under Netscape Graham Laight 02:05:18 02/01/03
        
        Further Announcement: Game Play Modified Graham Laight 03:31:30 02/01/03
        
        Re: Further Announcement: Game Play Modified Uri Blass 03:59:08 02/01/03
        
        Re: Further Announcement: Game Play Modified Russell Reagan 06:48:25 02/01/03
        
        Re: Further Announcement: Game Play Modified Graham Laight 12:19:14 02/01/03
        
        No Results Posted Since I Improved The Game Play! Graham Laight 07:10:04 02/02/03
        
        Re: No Results Posted Since I Improved The Game Play! Uri Blass 08:14:35 02/02/03
        
        Re: No Results Posted Since I Improved The Game Play! Graham Laight 13:10:37 02/02/03
        
        Boo-hoo! Your program beat me! Walter Faxon 16:19:25 02/03/03
        
        BTW Jonas Cohonas 08:06:55 01/31/03
        
        Re: BTW Graham Laight 08:14:47 01/31/03
  - Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game Uri Blass 04:36:43 01/31/03
    - Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game Graham Laight 04:47:11 01/31/03
      - Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game Uri Blass 05:02:43 01/31/03
        
        Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game Graham Laight 06:19:11 01/31/03

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