Results from my online version of the two thirds of the average game.

In my previous blog post I described briefly the online version of the two thirds of the average game that I set up using Google's app engine (the main reason for this was to make sure I knew how to do it as I plan on using something similar in an upcoming class).

I invited people to play and kept the game going for a week. I was hoping for a few more participants than I go but it was nice to get 76 people take the time to play.

Drum roll...

The winning guess was 15 and this was guessed by a single individual who did not leave a url but whose google username makes me think their name is Dalibor Smid: so congratulations and thanks for playing :)

The distribution of the guesses is fairly traditional for this experiment with peaks at the guesses that are 2/3s of the previous peak (66,44,29, 19 etc...).

Thanks a lot to everyone for playing and also for everyone who re-shared my invitation:

• +Paul Harper 
• +Theron Hitchman 
• +Patrick Honner 
• +Matt Lowrie 
• +Zoe Prytherch 
• +John Hammersley 
• AMS Blog on Math Blogs
• @evelynjlamb
• @JulienFlaig
• @or_exchange

and others that I apologise for forgetting!

I'm going to leave the game up there and reset it. I'll let the data store fill up until reaching 200 people and then reset it again (assuming 200 poeple ever decide to play :) etc...

So if you want to have another go please do go play:

http://twothirdsoftheaveragegame.appspot.com/

Invitation to play a game

So I've blogged about the two thirds of the average game quite a few times now. The latest pos that is kind of a summary of the other posts can be found here.

This post is however a bit different. I'm teaching a new game theory course next year and am busy preparing that. I'm planning on using various interactive games to help with my teaching. As a result I've been figuring out google's app engine so that I can host some of these games online.

The result of this is that I've put together an online open version of the two thirds of the average game that I'd really appreciate you taking the time to play.

The website is: twothirdsoftheaveragegame.appspot.com/ and it will take you 3 minutes to make a guess (you're welcome to guess a bunch of times, only your last guess will count).

Thanks to +Leanne Smith, +Zoe Prytherch, +Izabela Komenda, +Penny Holborn and +Angelico Fetta for testing it for me. Hopefully the bugs are all gone :)

I'll let this run for a week and pick the winner(s) on the 3rd of May at 1200 GMT. That's a week away. I would really aprpeciate you taking the time to play and can't offer much to the winners a part from being named (if you would like me to) in my blog post I write next week :)

So please do take the take to guess, more details about the game itself can be found at the site:

twothirdsoftheaveragegame.appspot.com/

All the code for the site can be found at this github repo.