Awesome segment on @BBC6Music with @FryRsquared on board games.
Guess Who optimal strategy: You can provably win within a max of 6 questions. Your opener should be - "does the character have a big mouth." You will beat a naive player 96% of the time.
Guess Who optimal strategy: You can provably win within a max of 6 questions. Your opener should be - "does the character have a big mouth." You will beat a naive player 96% of the time.
I believe this is the source.
Pic is optimal decision choices.
http://chalkdustmagazine.com/blog/cracking-guess-board-game/
Pic is optimal decision choices.
http://chalkdustmagazine.com/blog/cracking-guess-board-game/
They discuss briefly the monopoly strategy of sitting of buying up all the houses to restrict the supply.
Last time I looked into it, it's actually a poor winning strategy (though it's a great surprise play - who knew in the rules is specifies that house supply is limited?)
Last time I looked into it, it's actually a poor winning strategy (though it's a great surprise play - who knew in the rules is specifies that house supply is limited?)