[net.games] Would you like to play simulation ga

eric@whuxle.UUCP (12/17/83)

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whuxle!eric    Dec 16 17:12:00 1983


    I have developed a method for playing simulation games over uucp mail.
    It allows players to resolve dice rolls without any possibility of 
    cheating.  It works like this:  both players encrypt and exchange
    by mail a random number seed.  Whenever player 1 does an action
    that requires a die roll, he labels it with a unique sequence number
    that player 2 uses with his seed to find the result.  At the end of
    the game, both players can echange the key to decrypt the others
    random number seed and then check the other player to see that
    he has not cheated.


Hmmm.. i remember reading about this in a paper on information exchange,
except that the game was called Mentel Poker... this is net.games, not
net.plagarism, guys......


				:-) :-) :-)
				(note-- SARCASM ABOVE).
				eric holtman
				whuxlb!eric