The classic game theory dilemma where two prisoners are individually offered a deal if they’ll betray the other prisoner. But if they both betray each other then it’s bad news for both of them. What they choose depends on what they think the other will choose.

The prisoner’s dilemma

I am not advocating it. It just seems to always be the case.

Rule 1 of indoor games: Play until something gets broken

Every time we go I think, if you were to try and design the perfect toy it would have many of the remarkable attributes of a beach - particularly the self-tidying feature. At some point I should stop thinking that and just enjoy the beach.

Beaches: amazing for play

In other news, I think the offside rule should be changed in football so that the goalkeeper doesn’t count when evaluating offside. Always seems stupid to me when the standard definition involves ‘the last defender’ but the technical definition is the 'second-to-last defender’ because the goalkeeper is usually one of those. Let’s just not count the goalkeeper and make the thing simpler.

Also, Happy Christmas! Thanks so much for reading. Especially on Christmas day.

The offside rule

Tactics drawn from How to Use Math to Dominate at Monopoly.

Win at Monopoly

These are the two things I always look out for when setting up for pool, the line and the C. The rest falls into place.

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