[ExI] 2/3 game, round 1

[Emlyn]

2009/6/15 spike <spike66 at att.net>:
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>> ...On Behalf Of Emlyn
>> ...
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>> 99
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>> --
>> Emlyn
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>
> Coooool!  This is game theory at its best.  Clearly Emlyn has sacrificed
> himself for he cannot win with 99.  This would be a mathematical
> impossibility, altho if several others also posted 99s, then they would all
> tie for first by driving everyone else under.  Of course a single defector
> posting a 98 would then snatch the grand prize from those self sacrificing
> cooperators, the sneaky scoundrel.
>
> Emlyns bunt drives the 2/3 average to 26.5, which throws Zelaron under, at
> least temporarily, and boosts Emlyn's erstwhile countryman into the lead!
> Perhaps those crafty Australians got in cahoots?  Or perhaps Emlyn thought
> of the bunt strategy independently.
>
> Good thinking everyone!
>
> {8-]
>
> spike

I just wanted to grief the system a bit :-)

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