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Quiz Show Games: Searching with Bimodal Hiding
Mingshi Yao, Thomas Lidbetter, Melike Baykal-Gürsoy
The paper extends the classic quiz‑show ordering problem by letting a host allocate a fixed prize budget, analyzing three game‑theoretic variants and providing equilibrium strategi…
Alignment Games
Pedro Cesar Lopes Gerum, Thomas Lidbetter
This paper introduces alignment games, a new class of zero-sum games modeling strategic interventions where effectiveness depends on alignment with an underlying hidden state. Moti…
A review of minimum cost box searching games
Thomas Lidbetter
We consider a class of zero-sum search games in which a Hider hides one or more target among a set of boxes. The boxes may require differing amount of time to search, and detec…
A Booby Trap Game
Thomas Lidbetter, Kyle Lin
This paper presents a booby trap game played between a defender and an attacker on a search space, which may be a compact subset of Euclidean space or a network. The defender has s…