Here are the final quiz solutions (also found in the Detailed Quiz Solutions page).

Thank you all for taking this course and being very interactive on the forums. It made the course a lot of fun for me as well.

Take care,
Allen

Mon 15 Apr 2013 2:17 PM CEST

Thanks for everything

We'll meet again,
Don't know where, don't know when,
But I know we'll meet again, some sunny day.

Keep smiling through,
Just like you always do,
Till the blue skies drive those dark clouds, far away.

Tom Morley

Mon 15 Apr 2013 7:39 AM CEST

Here is the solution to the week 6 quiz (also found in the detailed quiz solutions tab). Also, the Bonus Quiz for week 7 is due Saturday, April 13th at 11:59 PM(EDT) with the hard deadline of Sunday, April 14th at 11:59PM (EDT) (with a 10% penalty per day).

Thu 11 Apr 2013 10:51 PM CEST

See: Bibliography . This is a list of some further reading, together with some comments.

Tue 9 Apr 2013 11:59 PM CEST

This week is all about -- where do you go from here. We've covered a lot of the fundamentals, so how how can you use these concepts to further study games. Let me know what you want to talk about in the forums. There's a completely optional quiz which can help those who missed a quiz or a lot of questions for some reason or another(Note due dates and number of attempts are different than usual!). You can see the details of this in syllabus, I believe.

Mon 8 Apr 2013 4:56 AM CEST

Just a reminder that the quiz for week 6 is due tomorrow, Monday April 8th at 11:59 PM(EDT) and can be submitted until Wednesday April 10th at 11:59 PM(EDT) with a 10% penalty per day.

Mon 8 Apr 2013 2:46 AM CEST

The solutions to the week 5 quiz are now up. They can be found here as well as in the Detailed Quiz Solutions tab.

Fri 5 Apr 2013 3:03 AM CEST

Nim! Impartial games. A big important result - Every impartial game is equivalent to a nim heap.. G = *n, the integer n is called the Grundy number of the impartail game G. Win at nim!

Mon 1 Apr 2013 5:45 AM CEST

Just a reminder that the week 5 quiz is due tomorrow, Monday April 1st at 11:59 PM (EDT) and you will have until Wednesday April 3rd at 11:59 PM (EDT) to turn it in with a 10% penalty per day. Also, solutions for the extra problems week 5 have been uploaded to the week 5 tab. The quiz for week 6 will be released at 11:59 PM (EDT) tonight, March 31st.

Mon 1 Apr 2013 3:53 AM CEST

The solutions to the week 4 quiz are now up. They can be found here as well as in the Detailed Quiz Solutions tab.

Fri 29 Mar 2013 6:53 PM CET

Welcome to week 5. Simplifying games. Dominated moves and reversible moves. Solutions to week 4 extra problems should appear shortly under "week 4" tab. Extra problems for week 5 -- entirely optional, should appear under week 5 tab. Don't forget about the week 4 quiz. Allen M will send an announcement out about that, to remind you.

Mon 25 Mar 2013 4:02 AM CET

Just a reminder that the week 4 quiz is due tomorrow, Monday March 25th at 11:59 PM (EDT) and you will have until Wednesday March 27th at 11:59 PM (EDT) to turn it in with a 10% penalty per day. Also, solutions for the extra problems week 4 have been uploaded to the week 4 tab. The quiz for week 5 will be released at 11:59 PM (EDT) tonight, March 24th.

Mon 25 Mar 2013 2:59 AM CET

The solutions to the week 3 quiz are now up. They can be found here as well as in the Detailed Quiz Solutions tab.

Thu 21 Mar 2013 3:38 PM CET

Just a reminder that the quiz for week 3 is due today, Monday March 18th at 11:59 PM (EDT). You will have until Wednesday March 20th at 11:59 PM (EDT) to complete the quiz with a 10% penalty per day.

Also, the solutions to the week 3 extra problems have been posted to the week 3 tab, and the extra problems for week 4 have been posted to the week 4 tab.

Have fun!

Mon 18 Mar 2013 3:39 PM CET

Numbers. Some games are numbers. Big payoff this week. This will make many computations much easier. Almost no green in the videos this week. All red and blue. Solutions for week 3 extra problems will eventually appear under Week 3 tab. Extra problems week 4 (fewer this time) will appear Monday or so.

Mon 18 Mar 2013 3:42 AM CET

Congratulations on finishing the first quiz! The solutions have been posted. They can be found here as well as on the Detailed Quiz Solutions tab.

Thu 14 Mar 2013 7:22 PM CET

As pointed out by a very observant student, I mis-speak at a certain point in lecture 3.3.
When I say (about ski jumps with jumps, with an additional move for right) that that game IS zero, what I meant to say (and what I wrote on the slide) is that that game is LESS THAN zero.

Many thanks to those who found this error. It won't be my last, I suspect.

Wed 13 Mar 2013 2:41 AM CET

The extra problems for week three are now up. The are completely optional. The are there for you to have fun with them. There will be a forum thread under assignments to discuss them

Tue 12 Mar 2013 2:55 AM CET

Games are ordered. But the order is more complicated than numbers. As usual the extra problems for week 3 will be posted Monday or Tuesday. Note that there is a quiz this week. Not too long. Also note that the slides that you can download for week 3 are revised from the slides in the video. They have red and green marked when it makes a difference.

Note that here in Atlanta, we just switched from Eastern Standard Time (-5 hours from UTC) to Eastern Daylight Time (-4 hours).

Thanks to all the students who have contributed in various ways to the class. Keep up all those posts to the forums! More, more more! The course it much more fun when you interact with others.

Mon 11 Mar 2013 2:55 AM CET

We just posted the answers to the week 2 extra problems. We created a forum with links to the answers. They can also be found in the Week 2 tab.

Regarding the quiz for week 3, it will be available at 11:59PM EDT tonight, Sunday March 10th. Notice that you only have 3 attempts this time, so plan accordingly.

Mon 11 Mar 2013 2:47 AM CET

Just wanted to remind everyone that the quiz for week 2 is due tomorrow, Sunday March 10th at 11:59PM (EDT). You will have until Monday March 11th at 11:59PM (EDT) to turn in the quiz without a penalty, and you have until Wednesday March 13th at 11:59PM (EDT) to turn in the quiz with a 10% penalty per day.

Sat 9 Mar 2013 10:07 PM CET

Extra problems for week two are up. They are in the week two tab.
There is a thread in the Assignments Forum for discussion. As usual
the Extra Problems are completely optional, but fun. There are some
general principles hidden in them. Try to figure these out!

Tue 5 Mar 2013 2:00 AM CET

The revision of this weeks quiz is now up. Don't forget to download the new quiz pdf: Quiz 2 Revised (If you have already taken the quiz, check to see if it still has your old score, if it does, fine, if not retake.)
Sorry about this. I'm new at this stuff too.

Mon 4 Mar 2013 4:24 PM CET

We have taken down the quiz for now to fix something. It will hopefully be back up later today.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Mon 4 Mar 2013 2:06 PM CET

Well, a whole week is about up, and week 2 is about to begin. This week we will learn about adding and subtracting games. By Tuesday the extra problems for week two should be up. There are, as usual, completely optional, except that they are fun and fun to talk about in the forums.

This week is a quiz. It is due Sunday 10th at 11:59 pm, though there is a grace period. See syllabus for details. The quiz is just a few multiple choice questions. To take the quiz download the quiz from the Week 2 tab, then look it over, work it, and go to the quizes tab to enter answers. You have 10 tries, but they must be at least 5 minutes apart.

I want to thank everyone for making week one a success, and in particular, I want to thank everyone that posted in the forums. Keep up the good work.

By the time you see this, the answers to week one's extra problems will be posted in the forums.

There will be a scheduled outage of the site for a brief period sometime from 6-9 pm (EST) on Tuesday Match 5th.

Mon 4 Mar 2013 5:59 AM CET

We have added to the week one tab a document called
Extra Problems Week 1. This contains extra problems for you all
to work on and discuss. The problems are NOT graded, and they are
are completely optional. If you want to solve and discuss these
problems, have fun, and post in Forums -> Lectures under the thread
Extra Problems Week One.

Tue 26 Feb 2013 3:07 PM CET

Welcome!


Dear Students in an “Games without Chance: Combinatorial Game Theory” Course:


Thank you for joining this course! We are starting our studies as of
February 25th. To begin this course I recommend that you click on the
link “Getting Started” at the Coursera class web site.


We are excited to be a part of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
movement and we want to learn as much as we can about them in a
research study we are conducting at Georgia Tech. We therefore invite
you to participate in occasional surveys that are part of this
research study. The surveys will tell us about you, and how the course
is working for you. The information you provide will help us make the
course better.


Participation in the surveys is completely optional and will not
affect your grade in the course in any way. For your reference, here
is a link to a PDF document to the consent form that describes the
surveys and study in more detail.

MOOC Consent Form


With warm regards from Atlanta, U.S.A.!


Tom Morley

Professor of Mathematics

Mathematician, Musician, Bicycle rider.

Mon 25 Feb 2013 5:59 AM CET

We moved the Q&A and Bio Forums to the main Discussion Forums tab (now located at the top) so that everything is in one place. Enjoy the class!

Sun 24 Feb 2013 10:36 PM CET