Interactive game-theory labs
Life's a game. Most people never see the board.
Strategy isn't just for boardrooms and battlefields. It's the quiet math behind every split bill, stalled negotiation, and unreturned text. These labs turn that math into something you can touch, move, and break.
Featured
Start with The Trap
The Prisoner's Dilemma is the cleanest introduction to equilibrium — two people, one grid, and a logic that drags both of them somewhere neither wants to be.
Prisoner's Dilemma
The Trap
The labs
Pick your strategic situation
One lab is live today. The rest are the roadmap — each named for the feeling it studies, not just the math underneath.
Bargaining
The Deal
How do two people split a pie when walking away is always an option?
Repeated Games
The Echo
One round rewards betrayal. A hundred rounds reward memory.
Coalitional Games
The Fair Split
Who gets how much when the whole is worth more than the sum of its parts?
War of Attrition
The Waiting Game
Two people stall, and the last one to blink wins — but blinking too late costs everything.
Information Cascades
The Whisper Chain
When everyone copies the person in front, private signals stop mattering.
Hawk–Dove
The Standoff
Two players, two postures, and a line where backing down beats getting hurt.
The point
Three things we keep coming back to
The board is only half the game. The other half is what you believe about the other player.
Rationality explains the map; it doesn't explain why we keep walking off it.
Every strategy is a bet on someone else's next move.