Once your producers understand the “I WANT $3” game, you will present the “I WANT TO BE A MILLIONAIRE” game. Its rules are: There are two contestants/opponents (who do not know each other and cannot communicate with each other during the game). Each player is given $1 million at the start of the game. Independently and simultaneously, each player must choose to add to their award $0, $1, $2, $3, $4, ……$999,999, or $1,000,000. Doing so decreases the other player’s award by twice that amount. Each player ends the game with a payoff based on their initial one million, the additional amount that they announced, and the reduction due to the opponent’s announcement. The game matrix for this expanded game has 1,000,001 rows, 1,000,001 columns, and 1,000,002,000,001 pairs of payoffs.  I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU DO NOT DRAW IT! But building on what you learned in part (a), answer the following two questions: i) What is the Nash equilibrium of this game?     ii) What are the Nash equilibrium payoffs for the players in this game?     iii) Is there a strictly dominant strategy for either player?  If not, explain why not.  If so, identify it.

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  1. Once your producers understand the “I WANT $3” game, you will present the “I WANT TO BE A MILLIONAIRE” game. Its rules are:
    • There are two contestants/opponents (who do not know each other and cannot communicate with each other during the game).
    • Each player is given $1 million at the start of the game.
    • Independently and simultaneously, each player must choose to add to their award $0, $1, $2, $3, $4, ……$999,999, or $1,000,000. Doing so decreases the other player’s award by twice that amount.
    • Each player ends the game with a payoff based on their initial one million, the additional amount that they announced, and the reduction due to the opponent’s announcement.

The game matrix for this expanded game has 1,000,001 rows, 1,000,001 columns, and 1,000,002,000,001 pairs of payoffs.  I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU DO NOT DRAW IT! But building on what you learned in part (a), answer the following two questions:

i) What is the Nash equilibrium of this game?



 

 

ii) What are the Nash equilibrium payoffs for the players in this game?

 

 



iii) Is there a strictly dominant strategy for either player?  If not, explain why not.  If so, identify it.

 

 

 

iv) Do you have a future in TV game shows?

 

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