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>> I've been thinking of building a game that tests how random you are. I think this game of skill might be one where smarter people don't have an advantage. H
by TallGuyShort 17y ago
>> I've been thinking of building a game that tests how random you are. I think this game of skill might be one where smarter people don't have an advantage.
How do you plan on testing how random someone is? What if they randomly choose to give you the Fibonacci series? Or are you going to reward the complete lack of patterns and structure? In which case, I think the only people who enjoy that are people who are already familiar with a number of types of numerical patterns.
Honestly, I don't see this being any different than a game of complete chance, or rewarding various IQs equally.
- amichail 17y agoThere are statistical tests that are used to see how good random number generators are. I can use one or more of these in the game. A game of complete chance would not have a sense of accomplishment. But being random requires effort -- though perhaps not high IQ.
- khafra 17y agoThe main problem is that rational agents should win. People with higher IQs are more likely to know the ways humans typically fail in attempting to generate random sequences. Testing for randomness would be a simple matter of computing the kolmogorov complexity of the total input, each time the score is recalculated. Game speed may suffer.