The big thinkers at Aperture explore how game theory applies to everyday decisions and life strategies. JFK's niece has ...

Discover the Dollar Auction game, a fascinating paradox of rational choice theory, where bidding strategies can lead to surprising outcomes. Learn how it challenges logical decisions.

Explore how backward induction helps solve game theory problems by working from the end backward to determine optimal actions ...

A few weeks ago fellow FNAF theorist ‪@HyperDroid‬ made a video claiming to have SOLVED the infamous Foxy Grid from the Security Logbook. Since then the FNAF community has come together in general ...

Does your relationship have what it takes to go the distance? According to psychologists and researchers, Drs. Julie and John Gottman, there might just be a test that can help you find out. It's ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Each of the games, from Persona to Metaphor: ReFantazio, created and directed by Katsura Hashino can be linked to one of the major arcana from modern tarot sets. In fact, starting from 13. Death, and ...

Whether you play gacha games or not, you’ve likely heard the term used before. Yet, while gacha games are commonplace in the video games industry, not everyone knows what they are, nor the history ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

Little Problems: A Cozy Detective Game is quite possibly the most self-explanatory title ever. It’s a detective game with a laid-back, low-stakes cases involving ordinary problems everyone faces. Help ...

This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. For this series' final entry, we're ...

Ever wonder how nodes are incentivized in a blockchain to ensure trust, consensus and cooperation in a system with no central authority? The answer lies in game theory, the mathematical study of ...