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Aspects of the Cooperative Card Game Hanabi

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We examine the cooperative card game Hanabi. Players can only see the cards of the other players, but not their own. Using hints partial information can be revealed. We show some combinatorial properties, and develop AI (Artificial Intelligence) players that use rule-based and Monte Carlo methods.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom, as well as the anonymous contributors from [10]. Moreover, they thank the reviewers for bringing [5] to our attention.

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  1. Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Mark J. H. van den Bergh, Anne Hommelberg & Walter A. Kosters

  2. Mathematical Institute, Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Mark J. H. van den Bergh & Flora M. Spieksma

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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van den Bergh, M.J.H., Hommelberg, A., Kosters, W.A., Spieksma, F.M. (2017). Aspects of the Cooperative Card Game Hanabi. In: Bosse, T., Bredeweg, B. (eds) BNAIC 2016: Artificial Intelligence. BNAIC 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 765. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67468-1_7

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