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Ulam's game, or the Rényi–Ulam game, is a mathematical game similar to the popular game of twenty questions. In Ulam's game, a player attempts to guess an unnamed object or number by asking yes–no questions of another, but one of the answers given may be a lie. Alfréd Rényi introduced the game in a 1961 paper, based on Hungary's Bar Kokhba game, but the paper was overlooked for many years.

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  • Ulam's game, or the Rényi–Ulam game, is a mathematical game similar to the popular game of twenty questions. In Ulam's game, a player attempts to guess an unnamed object or number by asking yes–no questions of another, but one of the answers given may be a lie. Alfréd Rényi introduced the game in a 1961 paper, based on Hungary's Bar Kokhba game, but the paper was overlooked for many years. Stanislaw Ulam rediscovered the game, presenting the idea that there are a million objects and the answer to one question can be wrong, and considered the minimum number of questions required, and the strategy that should be adopted. gave a survey of similar games and their relation to information theory. (en)
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  • Alfréd Rényi (en)
  • Stanislaw Ulam (en)
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  • Stanislaw (en)
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  • Rényi (en)
  • Ulam (en)
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  • Ulam's game, or the Rényi–Ulam game, is a mathematical game similar to the popular game of twenty questions. In Ulam's game, a player attempts to guess an unnamed object or number by asking yes–no questions of another, but one of the answers given may be a lie. Alfréd Rényi introduced the game in a 1961 paper, based on Hungary's Bar Kokhba game, but the paper was overlooked for many years. (en)
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  • Ulam's game (en)
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