On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > Proposal, AI-1, A Complex Game:
I like this, at least to try playing at least once, although I suspect it would end up a little random, as, e.g., ^ is practically an instant win, and, afaict, you must get either that or * to have any chance of winning (unless you can combine digits, see below). I guess there is the potential for coalitions to make this more interesting and sort of smooth out the competition. I think that syntax errors should be refunded, as they may be the result of typos. There should be a better term than "operator", which does not include numbers in normal usage. Are multiple digits in a row allowed? This should be clarified. If so, afaict sitting on numbers until you have any seven of them is a strictly dominant strategy unless you get ^, so I don't think it should be allowed. It might be interesting if having a high score conferred some advantage before actually winning (such as getting better rolls?), so there would be a reason to spend operators rather than sitting on them in general.
