Iterated Games

Often players in a scenario that can be modeled as a strategic form game engage in repeated interactions with each other. In such instances, their selection of a strategy on a given "iteration" may depend on their history of previous interactions. By way of example, a player might start by playing strategy 1 and continue playing it unless the history of interactions were such that the opposing player had played 0 on his/her last two turns. This Demonstration permits a selection for each player from the 2,097,152 (2^21) strategies that depend on the prior two interactions of the players. It shows the resulting "directed graph" of histories the players could observe, the steady-state cycle of histories that will be observed, the payoffs from the selected strategic form game, and the mean payoffs received by the players in the steady state.