Graduate Student Colloquium
Wai Yan Pong
Cal State Dominguez Hills
Matching Games and their generalizations
Abstract: The matching game is a two-person game. One player is the "match" player and the
other is the "no-match" player. Each player draws a ball at random from a bag
containing balls of two different colors. The match player wins the game if the
two balls drawn are of the same color, otherwise the no-match player wins. A
matching game of $n$ colors, or simply an $n$-color matching game, is played the
same way, except the balls are of $n$ different colors. We will discuss a
generalization of the matching game and show how to find the fair games.
Friday November 3, 2006 at 3:00 PM in SEO 636