2 papers
math.CO2026
Optimal play in 'Guess Who?'
David Cushing, Stuart Gipp, Ezra Levick +2
We prove an optimal strategy for the children's game Guess Who? assuming the official rules are in use and that both players ask `classical' questions with a bipartite response. Ap…
math.CO2024
Applying constraint programming to minimal lottery designs
David Cushing, David I. Stewart
We develop and deploy a set of constraints for the purpose of calculating minimal sizes of lottery designs. Specifically, we find the minimum number of tickets of size six which ar…