Talk:List of games in game theory

Farmer's Dilemma?
I don't know anything about game theory, really, but shouldn't Wikipedia have an article (and a mention in this table) about the Farmer's Dilemma? It's mentioned in this article and this article at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  D a v e R u n g e r (t)⁄(c) 04:29, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The Farmer's dilemma is a version of the Prisoner's dilemma. I will create a redirect.  --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 19:28, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Game classes to add
There are some classes of games that are not mentioned in the list, like public good games or colonel blotto games. Also, in my opinion, the war of attrition game should be on the list. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Chevalier de la charrette (talk • contribs) 18:41, 10 May 2007 (UTC).

Maybe also the "traveller's dilemma" game, should be present, it is in this shorter list Template:Game_theory. I think many of the games are close relatives. Browsing this list of strange names is not easy. Maybe we should try to better split them into categories.--RomualdoGrillo 16:47, 21 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Why are some highly studied games like checkers and chess not in the list? I don't see anything in the scope that excludes them. Also, infinite chess has been studied in the context of game theory. Am I missing something about the scope of this list?—LithiumFlash (talk) 15:53, 14 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Both are sequential perfect information zero-sum deterministic games. This makes them game-theoretically trivial.--Geysirhead (talk) 23:11, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

cake cutting sequential?
Unless I'm missing something, the common solution (cut-then-choose) to the cake cutting problem assumes it's sequential. Cretog8 (talk) 22:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Either that is the case, or the definition of Perfect Information is mistaken. Floridi (talk) 16:55, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

New game: The ferry game
Maybe someone should write a page on the Ferry game, recently invented by the Joker in the Dark Knight. I would do it myself but I'm not very wiki-savvy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.178.219.168 (talk) 10:12, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

A picture
I made this map of 2x2 games some long time ago (actually, I copied this from a book by David Robinson; as far as I understand this does not constitute copyright violation). But anyways, it shows the complete variety of all possible games with 2 players and 2 strategies. Some of those games have names, some don't (perhaps because they are boring?). Crosses represent minimax solution, white circles are Nash equilibria. Solid and dotted lines show the choice sets of the two players.

I generated the diagram as a TeX source converted into PDF, and have no idea how to further convert the PDF into an appopriate image format... Click the thumbnail on the right to see the actual file ==>

//  st pasha  »  23:42, 12 June 2010 (UTC)