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   I played the game twice,

Submitted by nbagaria on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 11:24am.

 

 I played the game twice, using different combinations of choices; however I always ended up with the same amount of coins (23). 

After playing the game I realized that since I was unable to judge exactly how my opponent would react,  I would try and balance out both my actions (compete and cooperate) and this happened both the times that I played. I did so possibly because I was actually concerned about what my opponent would “think” of me, even though I knew it really did not matter what it thought of me. The other possible explanation was that since I did not know my opponent's moves I did not want it to be able to make any sort of strategy or be able to predict my moves. Hence, I tried to make my moves as unpredictable as possible.

 

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