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What do you think about problems related to games?
By Holland_Pig, history, 5 years ago, In English

I wrote this article just after Edu Round #68 ended.

I participated in this contest and the past contest #573,and I was surprised to find that both of the contests contained problems that are related to games(one) another.Will this kind of problems become a trend in codeforces?

These solutions of this kind of problems may be harder to think,however,they are easier to code.Despite these issues,the problems are really interesting.What do you think about them?

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I don't know if they will, but if they do, I'm doomed.

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I think as long as they are ad-hoc (like in last contest) it's fine, if the problems involve actual game theory like nim game or sprague-grundy theorem I won't be able to solve them because I haven't tried to learn those ideas yet.

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my timeline from past 3 days

2 days ago codeforces round #573 div1B game theory-9 wrong submissions.

yesterday facebook hackercup round 2 first Q game theory-source rejected.

today educational round #68 D game theory-6 wrong submissions.

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    Source rejected?

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      In Facebook Hackercup the judge gives it's evaluation after the contest has ended and mine was that your source is rejected, inshort WA.

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        Why would FHC reject a source? I thought they only checked your output for correctness and not the source

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          This is something even i don't know cause it happened to me last year too and this year also in qualification round and i remember that in qualification round my output was wrong but the verdict was source rejected.

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    It seems that we share similar experiences.

    I only passed the problem in educational round #68 o(╥﹏╥)o

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I think problems involving games is kinda fun but it shouldn't be part of competitive scene

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Sounds great！

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I’m very bad at game problems. I usually skip the round if it have number theory or game problems. I hate number theory problems, but I think game problems are good, I simply suck at it.

That’s why I skim the problems before CF, but in #573 I just participated because I thought my ratings were low enough to cover up one game problems. It turned out that it had two game problems and one number theory problems, so I got a well expected -120 rating.

Also in last FHC Round 2 I struggled to solve the easiest problem which was a game problem. I just guessed the patterns from samples and got AC. I don’t know why it works.

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