Pirates and treasure

zbMATH Open1283.91026arXiv1208.2432MaRDI QIDQ2855641FDOQ2855641

Authors: Fraser Stewart 

Publication date: 25 October 2013

Published in: Integers (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we introduce a new game; in this game there are two players who play as rival pirate gangs. The goal is to gather more treasure than your rival. The game is played on a graph and a player gathers treasure by moving to an unvisited vertex. At the end of the game, the player with the most treasure wins. We will show that this game is NP-Hard, and we will also look at the structure of this game under the disjunctive sum. We will show that there are cases where this game behaves like a normal play game, and cases where it behaves like a mis`ere play game. We then leave an open problem about scoring play games in general.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.2432

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zbMATH Keywords

combinatorial gameNP-hard problempirates and treasure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational difficulty of problems (lower bounds, completeness, difficulty of approximation, etc.) (68Q17) 2-person games (91A05) Games involving graphs (91A43) Combinatorial games (91A46)

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• On the complexity and topology of scoring games: of pirates and treasure

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