I’ve known people that refuse to play a game if it has been solved, even if they don’t know the optimal moves.
Like, there is no difference to the play experience if both players don’t know the solution.
yeah okay but i’m still not playing snakes and ladders with you
I think snakes and ladders is like watching sports. You pick a team (somewhat arbitrarily) and attach yourself emotionally to how well it does just to feel something.
For a more obvious example of this phenomenon watch marble races on youtube.
Go pinkies!
i feel like there are more interesting spectator sports to use for that, but i guess if you’re easily overwhelmed…
You need to be in a crowd for those good chemicals to start pumping. Try to gather at least five for each colour
i’ve been at a hebocon event, i know the feeling.
Is Snakes and Ladders considered solved?
I’m not sure it counts if there are zero choices provided to the player
A game is solved if there’s a strategy that leads to optimal results. Snakes and ladders has no strategy.
I would argue against that conclusion. In some games and optimal policy is the best that you can come up with, and we consider that a solution.
It’s a recursive game by nature, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t the best move.
In snakes and ladders there isn’t a move. There’s not a single choice in the whole game. From the viewpoint of game theory it is not even a game, since a game requires choice. Without choice no strategy, without strategy no game in the sense of game theory.
And a non-game without strategy or choice cannot have a solution.
probably not, in the same way that a coin toss isn’t.
Coin tosses are solved, always call “heads I win, tails you lose”
you’re leaving out the “miraculously lands on the rim” case, leaving good money on the table
No no it landed on tails, so tails wins.
He says, without irony, with stacking rings in his hand.
That kids in for a disappointing life.
Not even the towers of Hanoi. Clearly that kid dumb af
Oof, I don’t have the slightest idea what the hell’s going on here.
Is it… maybe benign, hopefully…?
a “solved game” is one where the optimal move is known, thus making it uninteresting for the intellectual problem-solver. he’s bragging about it.
Like tic tac toe (naughts and crosses) for example
Aaahh… haha, ich bin ein Idiot. Die gibt es natürlich auch beim Schach.
Das ist tatsächlich ein wirklich guter, wirkungsvoller Cartoon. oOXD
Why would it not be benign?
All you had to do is google what the very self-explanatory term “solved game” means and you’d be able to participate in the discussion. It would have literally been easier to educate yourself than to post a comment proclaiming your ignorance.
Aheem, listen here dick head. This is what we call a community. People ask questions, and others respond. With out that apart from the porn and shitty memes this whole thing would be kinda useless. Like you.
And would have been even easier to not say anything at all when you don’t have anything nice or constructive to say.
That commenter used to be into peekaboo too.
I said something constructive. I told that person to get educated. Apparently, they didn’t know google exists.
You are the kid in the comic
Unnecessarily rude. That rudeness dumps all the constructiveness of your comment into a dump. I hope you know that you can make your points in a kinder way, and if you refuse, maybe the listener would prefer if you said nothing.
If regardless you would comment it would not be for the listener, but for you to feel superior while writing. And that’s extra rude.
