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CBS Survivor Game

Here is a well-defined strategy game played out in CBS’s Survivor in Thailand.

The Game

There are 21 flags planted in the field between two ‘tribes’ – Chuay Gahn and Sook Jai. Each tribe takes turns removing flags. Each tribe at its turn can choose to remove 1 or 2 or 3 flags. The team to take the last flag, whether standing alone or part of a group of 2 or 3 flags, wins the game.

The first tribe – Sook Jai – chose to remove 2 flags. Was this the right move?

Clue

During the discussion within one of the teams, Ted Rogers – an African American software developer, said:

At the end, we must leave them with four flags.

 

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I am a cognitive scientist with a joint Ph.D in cognitive psychology and neuroscience from the Center of the Neural Basis of Cognition (Carnegie Mellon/Pittsburgh). At IQ Mindware we develop brain training interventions to increase IQ, critical thinking, decision making, creativity and executive functioning.

1 Comment

  • Wrong. The first tribe should always remove 1 or 3 flags on the first move.
    To win this game the first tribe should leave the second one with 4 flags left on the field, to keep this strategy active the first tribe should always leave the second one with even number of flags (e.g. 20, 18, 16, etc.)

    Ivan 25.04.2017
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