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Re: Twenty Bank Robbers -- Game theory:)



Gary Howland <[email protected]> wrote:

   > No. Robber 18 knows that he will be killed under those circumstances, so he
   > proposes that Robber 20 gets all the money. 20 votes with him. 

   I think many are assuming that the cypherpunk making the suggestion
   gets a vote.  My reading of the puzzle is that he does not.

I hadn't thought of that.  If the proposer gets no vote, and assuming
he still gets counted to make up 50%, for N > 3, he should suggest
giving some money to the penultimate ceil(N/2) robbers.  In the case
of N <= 3, the last robber gets everything.

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