Games Theorist Gifts

Davos.

'According to this book, the casino has a slight edge in this game.'

"I think someone's trying to play games with us."

"This is Blackjack, come in Yahtzee."

'Unbelievable, these guys brought a ringer.'

"I hope I get rock and you get scissors, or I get scissors and you get paper, or I get paper and you get rock."

Casino. Keno. $$$. Win. Cashier. He sure wins a lot! He's "Keno Savvy."

Basketball Tourney. Ernie, you're crushing everybody in the office basketball pool! You've picked the winner of every game so far! It's amazing because you don't know a thing about basketball. For you, picking the winner of every tournament game is like correctly guessing a coin flip sixty seven times in a row! No, I have a system! It seems everybody has an opinion about the tourney so I listened to what my investment advisor thought about the teams. And with his record of picking winners

Solitaire card shark.

"What would happen if you put down your weapon and tried to work things out peacefully?"

"Do you ever wish you lived in a different era, Randy?" "Well… every waking moment I wish I were living before the beginning of existence itself. So I could witness the Big Bang." "It's safer to keep me where I am. Injecting my advanced virility into more primitive eras could have disastrous effects on the timeline." "That way I could know for sure whether our universe is all just one big simulation running on some geek's computer." "I mean, everything being made up of atoms and math is

'When the music stops, sit down in the nearest chair. Whoever doesn't get a chair is redundant.'

'Maybe it's me, but I have a feeling we're being used as pawns.'

"I'm ready to play Hide and go Seek."

'Then it's agreed - we all keep our arms raised until someone blinks.'

Rock, paper, scissors

Football Thinker

No Strike Zone Man.

'Rock beats scissors, sanctions it is!'

Peel as the Knave of Spades

'This is not what we meant, Snider, when we asked for a thorough study of the laws of gravity.'

"I don't know if it's truly a zero sum game, but our game sure summed to zero."

'Although we've vanquished the invaders from Paperland, we really should have allied with them for the impending attack on us by Rockland!'

Chess boxing

Political Collaboration.

Footballer plays in labyrinth.

"Saying you're moral because you believe in God is like saying you're a soldier because you play 'Call of Duty'."

'It stands for, 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'.'

If chess allowed gerrymandering.

"What kind of idiot gets suckered into something like that?"

"Have you ever felt you were just a random NPC in an asymmetrical multiplayer open world survival video game?"

"I call it, 'wheel'. I spin it, drop this pebble, and if you don't guess where it stops, I take your stuff."

How to win the Lottery. - Scratch 'n' read edition.

'What? Hand out assists to my teammates? That will just create a cycle of dependency!'

"I'm not just playing video games--I'm contributing to the zeitgeist of the times."