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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 04:17:38 01/31/03

On January 31, 2003 at 07:00:46, Graham Laight wrote:

>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.

I did not try to play but logic tells me exactly the opposite.

when the number of guesses is small the computer can know what most humans do in
that situation and hide a coin in the second hand so if I am in the majority I
will lose.

Uri

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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