"extensive form game" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: extensive form games [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} extensive form game (plural extensive form games)
  1. (game theory) Informally, a representation of a game as a tree of decision nodes, with the game beginning at a unique initial node, and flowing through the tree along a path determined by the players until a terminal node is reached, where play ends and payoffs are assigned to all players; each non-terminal node belongs to a player; that player chooses among the possible moves at that node, each possible move is an edge leading from that node to another node. Wikipedia link: extensive form game Categories (topical): Game theory Hyponyms: centipede game Related terms: normal form game

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