Answer by L. Milla for Which popular games are the most mathematical?
Spot it! or Dobble (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobble) is a game with 57 cards, each showing 8 symbols. For every pair of cards, there is exactly one common symbol. This is possible because of the...
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Answer by Rahman. M for Which popular games are the most mathematical?
Peg solitaire which I played on chess board in childhood. Let me explain this solitary game; consider the following table consisted of 33 holes.There is a peg in all except one of the holes.(Assume...
View ArticleAnswer by Sylvain JULIEN for Which popular games are the most mathematical?
Othello, since the number of the opponent's pieces you can flip highly depends on where you put yours.
View ArticleAnswer by Gerry Myerson for Which popular games are the most mathematical?
Has no one mentioned Finchley Central and the other games discussed in Volume 3 (1969) of Manifold? Available here, starting on page 31.
View ArticleAnswer by Sam Hopkins for Which popular games are the most mathematical?
Battle Line (originally published under the name Schotten-Totten) is a simple 2-player strategy card game designed by noted boardgame designer and math PhD Reiner Knizia. The goal is to try to capture...
View ArticleAnswer by Denis Serre for Which popular games are the most mathematical?
The two-player single suit whist has been analyzed completely in this paper by Johan Wastlund. This was mentioned by Alison Miller in her answer to my MO questionBridge game with only one suit: strategy.
View ArticleAnswer by Waldemar for Which popular games are the most mathematical?
I’d like to emphasize that typical sports games (eg. played at Olympic games, NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL) often fit at least three criteria mentioned in the question. Before me, Barry Cipra mentioned baseball....
View ArticleAnswer by ex0du5 for Which popular games are the most mathematical?
Games are mathematical. That's not something you can avoid. If there are rules for moves and goal states, you've already entered mathematics through logic and proof theory. And even for the simplest...
View ArticleAnswer by Abel Stolz for Which popular games are the most mathematical?
The page https://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/index.html claims that the popular trading card game Magic: The Gathering is Turing complete. Some mathematician who knows the rules should recheck...
View ArticleAnswer by rdm for Which popular games are the most mathematical?
I would be tempted to include Blackjack in the list of mathematical games. It's supposedly a game of chance, but gambling establishments routinely forbid card counting, because a mathematical approach...
View ArticleAnswer by Mike for Which popular games are the most mathematical?
Blood Bowl! All about managing probability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_bowl
View ArticleAnswer by Felix Goldberg for Which popular games are the most mathematical?
I am a bit surprised that Dominion has not been mentioned yet. I am referring less to the gameplay itself rather than to the analyzes that people do in order to assess the "intrinsic worth" or...
View ArticleAnswer by Michael Murray for Which popular games are the most mathematical?
Rummikub ? It encourages some logical thought and analysis. It seems to have at least one mathematical paper on it1https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxl033and it's popular and fun.1D. Den Hertog, P. B....
View ArticleAnswer by Curt Monash for Which popular games are the most mathematical?
Diplomacy was pretty much invented to illustrate points in cooperative game theory. At least, that's how Martin Shubik told me the story. :)Actually, I think he invented a card game called "So long,...
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Answer by Russell May for Which popular games are the most mathematical?
The game of Cootie, where players roll dice to collect parts of an insect (cootie), is a variant of the coupon collector's problem.Instead of collecting a single instance of each coupon, players must...
View ArticleAnswer by none for Which popular games are the most mathematical?
The Legend of Zelda and several other classic Nintendo games are NP-hard. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1203.1895v1.pdfFollowing the example of Rubik's Cube (i.e. maybe not exactly a game), as a kid I was...
View ArticleAnswer by user22202 for Which popular games are the most mathematical?
Just a two cents worth here. :)Chess itself might perhaps not be too mathematical, but the chess evaluation functions of any chess-playing computer program seems like a mathematical object. After all,...
View ArticleAnswer by Damien S. for Which popular games are the most mathematical?
There is the amazing set of one-player games presented by S. Tatham (especially loopy and towers):https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/You should try it !Damien.
View ArticleAnswer by Barry Cipra for Which popular games are the most mathematical?
Baseball fits the criteria of math underlying the game's structure, its optimal and practical strategies, and the analysis of results and performance. It certainly fits the criterion of popularity.
View ArticleAnswer by joro for Which popular games are the most mathematical?
Untangle (available in Debian based distros and easy online HTML5 versionFrom the documentation:You are given a number of points, some of which have lines drawn between them. You can move the points...
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