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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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