Discrete Colonel Blotto and General Lotto Games

Sergiu Hart

Discussion Paper Series from The Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Abstract: A class of integer-valued allocation games -- "General Lotto games" -- is introduced and solved. The results are then applied to analyze the classical discrete "Colonel Blotto games"; in particular, optimal strategies are obtained for all symmetric Colonel Blotto games.

Date: 2006-10
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Published in International Journal of Game Theory 36 (2008), 3-4, 441-460

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