One well-known game with payoff asymmetries is the matching pennies game.

Reaction correspondences for players in the matching pennies game.

Best response correspondences for players in the matching pennies game.

Of course, human players might not faithfully apply the equilibrium strategy, especially if matching pennies is played repeatedly.

Nonetheless, statistical analysis of penalty kicks in soccer — a high-stakes real-world situation that closely resembles the matching pennies game — has shown that the decisions of kickers and goalies resemble a mixed strategy equilibrium.

Vici is an example of a multi-genre card game which combines elements of 5-card hands and bluffing techniques from poker, with gathering and matching strategies from rummy and certain partnering aspects from bridge.

Manning's Colts defeated the Chargers in 1998 and 1999, but in 2004 with Leaf long gone from the game the revamped Chargers behind Drew Brees erupted into playoff contention ; on December 26 with both teams at 11-3 the Colts hosted the Chargers with Manning close to matching Dan Marino's touchdown record ; the Chargers stormed to a 31-16 lead, but Dominic Rhodes ' kickoff return put the Colts within eight points, then with one minute remaining Manning rifled a 21-yard touchdown to Brandon Stokley, breaking Marino's record ; the two-point try succeeded, then after Brees was intercepted the game went to overtime and the Colts won 34-31 on a field goal.

While the single player tile matching game mahjong solitaire is familiar in the West, in Asia it is the four-player table version which holds predominance and has little in common with the solitaire version other than using the same tiles.

Inevitably, the onset of the computer-moderated PBM game ( primarily the Legends game system ) meant that the human moderated games became " boutique " games with little chance of matching the gross revenues that larger, automated games could produce ..

Watters also became the second running back to catch 2 touchdown passes in a game, matching Craig.

The game usually involves matching symbols, either on mechanical reels that spin and stop to reveal one or several symbols, or on simulated reels shown on a video screen.

It was said that the game was an incorporation of 21st-Century elements into the classic game as well as an added feature that people from along the streets would be able to participate for matching with contestants and celebrities in Street Smarts-style.

The rules for a six-contestant game are the same as on the TV show ( with similar scoring, such as receiving points for matching two answers and more points for matching all three answers ), but the home game also has variations for fewer than six contestants.

Reviewer Shannon Appelcline said ( of the 2nd edition game ) " It's based on a fun concept -- blowing the heck out of each others cars '-- the box design is appealing, and there's a matching Battle Cattle game that's compatible.

The game consists of a number of minor games, such as card games and elemental die matching, which allow the players to build up their forces for use on the game's three giant boards ( in order ; the Board of Origin, the Board of Form, and finally the Board of Becoming ) and a number of minor boards.

Baldur's Gate II sold two million copies, matching the sales of the first game in the series.

Faro, Pharaoh, or Farobank, is a late 17th century French gambling card game descendant of basset, and belongs to the lansquenet and Monte Bank family of games, in that it is played between a banker and several players winning or losing according to the cards turned up matching those already exposed or not.

Tri is a two-or three-player matching card game in which players attempt to achieve at least 65 net points in one suit.

* Tri ( card game ), two or three-player matching card game

However, that colour is also important when it comes to matching up coloured rings later in the game to magnify the effects of spell-casting.

The object of the game is to turn over pairs of matching cards.

A variant of this technique involved matching a picture provided by the game to one in the manual and providing an answer pertaining to the picture ( Ski or Die and 4D Boxing used this technique ).

As is the case with the allotment provisions for support of vocational rehabilitation services, the matching requirements are also based on a statutory formula.

The purpose of the adjusted Federal share relating to the base allotment and of the transition provisions for reaching the unadjusted Federal share is to prevent dislocations from abrupt changes in matching rates.

The dictionary is a form dictionary, at least in the sense that complete forms are used as the basis for matching text occurrences with dictionary entries.

Each time a dictionary form matches a text form, the information cell of the matching text form is saved.

If cell Af is an information cell, it and any information cells in the Y-region that have been linked to Af each contain an address in the W-region where a potentially matching form is stored.

The other $15 million is to be alloted to municipalities on a matching fund basis.

She is tall and weighs, matching the average figure of a Korean women in her twenties.

The restoration of London progressed through the later half of the 880s and is believed to have revolved around a new street plan, added fortifications in addition to the existing Roman walls, and, some believe, the construction of matching fortifications on the South bank of the River Thames.

This is a common fact about allomorphy: if the allomorphy conditions are ordered from most restrictive ( in this case, after an alveolar stop ) to least restrictive, then the first matching case usually " wins ".

Conversely, British English favours fitted as the past tense of fit generally, whereas the preference of American English is more complex: AmEng prefers fitted for the metaphorical sense of having made an object " fit " ( i. e., suited ) for a purpose ; in spatial transitive contexts, AmEng uses fitted for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that it surrounds ( e. g., " fitted X around Y ") but fit for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that surrounds it ( e. g., " fit X into Y "); and for the spatial senses ( both intransitive and transitive ) of having been matching with respect to contour, with no alteration of either object implied, AmEng prefers fit (" The clothes fit.

The Shawn Carlson's double-blind chart matching tests, in which 28 astrologers agreed to match over 100 natal charts to psychological profiles generated by the California Psychological Inventory ( CPI ) test, is one of the most renowned tests of astrology.

Abstraction in mathematics is the process of extracting the underlying essence of a mathematical concept, removing any dependence on real world objects with which it might originally have been connected, and generalizing it so that it has wider applications or matching among other abstract descriptions of equivalent phenomena.

In economics and finance, arbitrage () is the practice of taking advantage of a price difference between two or more markets: striking a combination of matching deals that capitalize upon the imbalance, the profit being the difference between the market prices.

For example, a fund may see that there is a substantial difference between U. S. dollar debt and local currency debt of a foreign country, and enter into a series of matching trades ( including currency swaps ) to arbitrage the difference, while simultaneously entering into credit default swaps to protect against country risk and other types of specific risk.

Bioinformatics is very much involved in making sense of protein microarray and HT MS data ; the former approach faces similar problems as with microarrays targeted at mRNA, the latter involves the problem of matching large amounts of mass data against predicted masses from protein sequence databases, and the complicated statistical analysis of samples where multiple, but incomplete peptides from each protein are detected.

If the keys match, then a matching element has been found so its index, or position, is returned.

Herceptin, for example, was the first drug approved for use with a matching diagnostic test and is used to treat breast cancer in women whose cancer cells express the protein HER2.

The object of Rummy, and various other melding or matching games, is to acquire the required groups of matching cards before an opponent can do so.

The most common combination is that of matching and shedding, as in some variants of Rummy, Old Maid and Go Fish.

The best argument for rule-consequentialism is that it does a better job than its rivals of matching and tying together our moral convictions, as well as offering us help with our moral disagreements and uncertainties "

* Some nouns take-ice while matching verbs take-ise – for example, practice is a noun and practise is a verb ; in addition, licence is a noun and license is a verb.