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[Catalog]/[Tutorial]: Centipede game #804

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One of the earliest mentions of Gambit is in the McKelvey-Palfrey experimental paper on the centipede game:

McKelvey, Richard D. and Palfrey, Thomas R. (1992) An experimental study of the centipede game. Econometrica 60(4): 803-836.

A few of the game models from the paper are currently in contrib/games (as cent*.efg).

We should:

  1. Move the games into the catalog, improving their descriptions and cross-referencing them as appropriate
  2. Create a tutorial illustrating the calculations from the original paper.

An amusing side note is that the original paper acknowledges the use of a CRAY XMP for calculations. We expect the calculations can largely be reproduced now in a Jupyter notebook!

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  1. locked and limited conversation to collaborators on Mar 18, 2026
  2. converted this issue into a discussion #813 on Mar 18, 2026
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