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.
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.