2 papers
math.HO2025
Bluffing in Scrabble
Nick Ballard, Timothy Y. Chow
It is well known that in games with imperfect information, such as poker, bluffing with some probability can be a component of the optimal strategy. However, as far as we know, nob…
math.CO2024
Cooking Poisons: Thinking Laterally with Game Theory
Timothy Y. Chow
We revive an old lateral-thinking puzzle by Michael Rabin, involving poisons with strange properties. We show that the puzzle admits several unintended solutions that are just as i…