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It was so nice to see someone beat the prisoner's dilema task. Normally people wipe each other out.

To those who are unfamiliar with it, it is classed as game theory.

The set up

Two prisoners have been arrested for murder and kept separately.

If neither confess, both do one year for a minor charge

If one confesses and the other does not, the one who confessed walks free and the other is hanged.

If both confess, both do life.

You are one of the prisoners, what do you do?

Logic dictates you take the action which has the least drastic negative consequence should things go pear shaped. So both should end up confessing, as they can not be sure what the other will actually do.

When we play this it is called the red - blue game and one team by going one colour when the other team goes a certain colour can result in negative or minus points. Usually all the teams lie and everyone gets negative points.

One time in a class the lecturer made us hand over money to him which he said was the prize fund. I sussed he was expecting us to cut each other's throats so he would end up pocketing our cash, so I managed to pursuade the team I was on to loose. (The key to this game is altruism), and so unexpectedly the other team won, and at least the lecturer did not get to pocket the money. The winning team then reciprocated by handing our cash back.

So well done to Sara and Lisa for sussing this one out.