Optimal Strategy for the First Player in the Penney Ante Game

DOI10.1017/S0963548300000365zbMATH Open0803.90147MaRDI QIDQ4291191FDOQ4291191

Authors: János Csirik 

Publication date: 5 May 1994

Published in: Combinatorics, Probability and Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

Penney Ante game

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

2-person games (91A05) Probabilistic games; gambling (91A60)

Cites Work

• String overlaps, pattern matching, and nontransitive games

Cited In (11)

• Conway matrices related to a non-transitive head-or-tail game with a \(q\)-sided die and their Hamming weight-spectra via DFT and the MacWilliams duality formula
• Penney's game from multiple perspectives
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• Optimal Penney Ante strategy via correlation polynomial identities
• On the first occurrence of strings
• A note on the first occurrence of strings
• Re-exploring the Penney-Ante Game
• Better versus longer series of heads and tails
• The number of optimal strategies in the Penney-Ante game
• A golden penney game
• First-past-the-post games

Uses Software

• APL

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