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

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 06:19:11 01/31/03

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On January 31, 2003 at 08:02:43, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 31, 2003 at 07:47:11, Graham Laight wrote:
>
>>On January 31, 2003 at 07:36:43, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On January 31, 2003 at 07:29:29, Graham Laight wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 31, 2003 at 07:17:38, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>That's like saying that one could win a chess game against the majority of
>>>>people with a standardised sequence of moves!
>>>
>>>The point is that in chess there are more possibilities and here there are only
>>>2 possibilities for each move.
>>>
>>>I believe that if a lot of people played you can have the best move for the
>>>computer in the first 10 moves so at least in these moves I expect to lose but
>>>maybe I should try( but I am not optimistic about beating the computer in 49
>>>level)
>>
>>The trouble with using a small opening book is that once an opponent has learned
>>this book, they'll win again and again!
>>
>>My aspiration for this game is that it will KEEP winning!
>>
>>>I doubt if it can take 2 minutes if I think about every move.
>>
>>If you're lucky, you can still win - even without much thought - at 49 moves.
>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>Go on - have a go - you KNOW you want to...  :)
>>
>>http://mysite.freeserve.com/grahamlaight/jscript/GuessWhichHand.htm
>>
>>-g
>
>For some reason I do not get the question after I click start.

You don't wait for a question - just start pressing "Left" or "Right". It works
fine under IE, and I'll correct the Netscape error tonight.

Good luck!

-g

>Maybe I will try later in another computer because I suspect that there is some
>problem with this computer that prevents me to see things(I know that I also
>cannot see the content of another cite only from this computer and not from
>another computer).
>
>Uri



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