44 strategies participated in this year's KNOBELN contest. 28 of these were new entries, 16 were taken from the final group of last year's contest to make the field somewhat bigger. The contest was played in two rounds: Round 1 had two groups of 22 participants each, round 2 was the final round with only one group of 32 participants (the 16 best of each group of round1). And here they are, the results of the final round group of the 2nd International Knobeln contest: Results of group 2A: rank team name own points : opponent pts. 1. 'KNOBEL_IGEL' 170633 : 116495 2. 'Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team' 143381 : 152251 3. 'GameThrow' 142574 : 168692 4. 'the_propeller_heads' 134321 : 154447 5. 'RedDevils' 132203 : 161130 6. 'math_against_entropy' 129001 : 154110 7. 'The_Spanish_Inquisition' 127761 : 107591 8. 'johnny_von_neu_menn' 126162 : 67876 9. 'The_Thursday_Night_Hacker' 122227 : 72108 10. 'Quantum_Leap' 121562 : 144009 11. 'Ramdu' 120589 : 103475 12. 'The_Sheep_Connection' 120063 : 62046 13. 'URi' 119181 : 137033 14. 'Timothy_Truckle' 118222 : 119770 15. 'the_empire_of_entropy' 115972 : 122379 16. 'Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square' 112048 : 73199 17. 'infolab_team' 111273 : 105082 18. 'trailer' 107350 : 66615 19. 'team_renaissance' 106338 : 121476 20. 'the_knowing_knobler' 105474 : 77522 21. 'hungarian_blues' 100571 : 93785 22. 'cornflower' 96139 : 117343 23. 'Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze' 93797 : 97615 24. 'freckled_geckos' 87769 : 71236 25. 'teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins' 81309 : 90850 26. 'party_of_one' 79600 : 88265 27. 'Natural_Forces' 72895 : 105680 28. 'test2' 66047 : 169667 29. 'the_dutch_dream_team' 63540 : 106255 --- 'fribyte' DISQUALIFIED --- 'The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln' DISQUALIFIED --- 'skule_tm_rules_exclaim' DISQUALIFIED Congratulations to the souvereign winner of the contest: KNOBEL IGEL, created by Frank Sven Nestel and Johannes Novotny of University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany. (for non-german-speaking participants: An 'Igel' (pronounced exactly like 'eagle') is a hedgehog) A significant number of points behind follow two strategies of last year's contest, very close to each other: 'Jim and Dave's excellent team', created by five students of the University of Toronto, Canada, and 'GameThrow', created by Brian Scearce of SunSoft were also among the top strategies in 1993 (rank 7 and rank 8 of the second tournament, respectively --- the contest was played in two tournaments with a one-week strategy modification pause in between). Rank 4 is also an 'old' strategy: 'The propeller heads', created by five software and electronics engineers of Credence Systems Corp. Rank 5 is 'RedDevils', created by four students of the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Note that the strategies on ranks 2, 3, 4, and 5 all allowed their oppoents more points than they got themselves. Considering that last year's rules did not include the game of a strategy against itself, the results indicate that last year's participants did a great job. Last year's overall winner (and 4th of the second tournament) ranks only 20 this year -- it is lacking the 12000+ points of the self-play game in which it always at most gets a few dozen points. Last years overall second (and winner of the second tournament) ranks 12 -- having a similar problem with only about 5300 points against itself. Note that the new strategy from the same team (Matthias Ruhl, University of Freiburg, Germany) is on rank 9. 'fribyte' was disqualified after throwing a smaller number after only 1 non-decreasing throw against 'the_propeller_heads' and 'Ramdu'. This is interesting, because 'fribyte' was also disqualified last year -- after making through two previous rounds! 'The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln' was disqualified for the same reason (opponents: 'Timothy_Truckle' and 'Ramdu') 'skule_tm_rules_exclaim' was disqualified because it threw a 12290 against 'Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze' and 12289 against 'hungarian_blues'. For further study, here is a list of the results of all games in the final round. The list is sorted by the number of points scored by player 1. There are some really amazing things to be seen in this list... hungarian_blues : party_of_one -> 12355 : 175 party_of_one : test2 -> 11980 : 13 the_knowing_knobler : test2 -> 10509 : 39 party_of_one : math_against_entropy -> 9380 : 1234 Natural_Forces : skule_tm_rules_exclaim -> 9005 : 1708 trailer : Natural_Forces -> 8758 : 1173 KNOBEL_IGEL : Natural_Forces -> 8689 : 1458 Natural_Forces : the_propeller_heads -> 8459 : 1452 johnny_von_neu_menn : fribyte -> 8434 : 1594 The_Sheep_Connection : test2 -> 8313 : 1222 hungarian_blues : GameThrow -> 8258 : 2422 KNOBEL_IGEL : test2 -> 8079 : 2494 johnny_von_neu_menn : test2 -> 7934 : 1496 Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze : test2 -> 7829 : 2231 the_propeller_heads : test2 -> 7701 : 1623 Timothy_Truckle : test2 -> 7632 : 3173 hungarian_blues : the_knowing_knobler -> 7592 : 1037 johnny_von_neu_menn : cornflower -> 7584 : 248 The_Thursday_Night_Hacker : cornflower -> 7415 : 442 The_Sheep_Connection : cornflower -> 7369 : 375 hungarian_blues : math_against_entropy -> 7360 : 1597 GameThrow : test2 -> 7279 : 2278 KNOBEL_IGEL : team_renaissance -> 7225 : 288 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : Quantum_Leap -> 7220 : 1709 johnny_von_neu_menn : RedDevils -> 7194 : 227 johnny_von_neu_menn : the_propeller_heads -> 7122 : 222 trailer : GameThrow -> 7027 : 1852 Natural_Forces : The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln -> 6968 : 1426 RedDevils : test2 -> 6883 : 2791 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : test2 -> 6882 : 1224 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : Natural_Forces -> 6855 : 2309 johnny_von_neu_menn : team_renaissance -> 6680 : 212 KNOBEL_IGEL : GameThrow -> 6593 : 6382 The_Spanish_Inquisition : math_against_entropy -> 6587 : 6132 KNOBEL_IGEL : cornflower -> 6584 : 436 KNOBEL_IGEL : URi -> 6566 : 6383 KNOBEL_IGEL : Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team -> 6556 : 6382 test2 : test2 -> 6552 : 6448 KNOBEL_IGEL : Timothy_Truckle -> 6550 : 6418 KNOBEL_IGEL : math_against_entropy -> 6524 : 6437 infolab_team : Timothy_Truckle -> 6513 : 6486 infolab_team : URi -> 6513 : 6486 The_Spanish_Inquisition : Timothy_Truckle -> 6513 : 6487 RedDevils : RedDevils -> 6513 : 6487 RedDevils : URi -> 6513 : 6487 Ramdu : Timothy_Truckle -> 6513 : 6487 GameThrow : RedDevils -> 6513 : 6487 the_propeller_heads : the_propeller_heads -> 6511 : 6487 the_propeller_heads : Timothy_Truckle -> 6511 : 6487 the_propeller_heads : Ramdu -> 6511 : 6487 the_propeller_heads : URi -> 6511 : 6487 Quantum_Leap : Timothy_Truckle -> 6510 : 6487 KNOBEL_IGEL : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> 6509 : 6388 infolab_team : math_against_entropy -> 6504 : 6487 KNOBEL_IGEL : Quantum_Leap -> 6503 : 6420 infolab_team : infolab_team -> 6502 : 6478 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : RedDevils -> 6501 : 6487 the_propeller_heads : math_against_entropy -> 6500 : 6500 the_propeller_heads : RedDevils -> 6500 : 6500 the_empire_of_entropy : the_empire_of_entropy -> 6500 : 6500 math_against_entropy : math_against_entropy -> 6500 : 6500 math_against_entropy : URi -> 6500 : 6499 URi : URi -> 6500 : 6487 Timothy_Truckle : math_against_entropy -> 6500 : 6500 Timothy_Truckle : Timothy_Truckle -> 6500 : 6500 The_Spanish_Inquisition : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> 6500 : 6500 The_Spanish_Inquisition : URi -> 6500 : 6499 RedDevils : Timothy_Truckle -> 6500 : 6500 RedDevils : Ramdu -> 6500 : 6500 Ramdu : math_against_entropy -> 6500 : 6499 Quantum_Leap : math_against_entropy -> 6500 : 6500 GameThrow : math_against_entropy -> 6500 : 6500 GameThrow : the_propeller_heads -> 6500 : 6500 GameThrow : Timothy_Truckle -> 6500 : 6500 GameThrow : GameThrow -> 6500 : 6500 GameThrow : Ramdu -> 6500 : 6500 GameThrow : URi -> 6500 : 6499 the_propeller_heads : Quantum_Leap -> 6498 : 6497 Quantum_Leap : URi -> 6497 : 6499 Quantum_Leap : Ramdu -> 6496 : 6487 KNOBEL_IGEL : skule_tm_rules_exclaim -> 6491 : 6402 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> 6488 : 6500 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : the_empire_of_entropy -> 6488 : 6500 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : math_against_entropy -> 6488 : 6500 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : the_propeller_heads -> 6488 : 6500 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : Timothy_Truckle -> 6488 : 6500 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : infolab_team -> 6488 : 6500 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : Quantum_Leap -> 6488 : 6498 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : GameThrow -> 6488 : 6500 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : Ramdu -> 6488 : 6500 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : URi -> 6488 : 6499 the_propeller_heads : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> 6487 : 6512 the_empire_of_entropy : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> 6487 : 6513 the_empire_of_entropy : URi -> 6487 : 6512 Timothy_Truckle : URi -> 6487 : 6512 The_Spanish_Inquisition : infolab_team -> 6487 : 6504 RedDevils : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> 6487 : 6513 RedDevils : math_against_entropy -> 6487 : 6513 RedDevils : Quantum_Leap -> 6487 : 6510 Ramdu : Ramdu -> 6487 : 6487 Ramdu : URi -> 6487 : 6512 Quantum_Leap : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> 6487 : 6513 Quantum_Leap : infolab_team -> 6487 : 6504 Quantum_Leap : Quantum_Leap -> 6487 : 6512 KNOBEL_IGEL : KNOBEL_IGEL -> 6487 : 6513 GameThrow : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> 6487 : 6513 GameThrow : Quantum_Leap -> 6487 : 6508 the_propeller_heads : infolab_team -> 6485 : 6513 GameThrow : skule_tm_rules_exclaim -> 6482 : 6483 skule_tm_rules_exclaim : the_propeller_heads -> 6481 : 6487 KNOBEL_IGEL : Ramdu -> 6481 : 6375 johnny_von_neu_menn : johnny_von_neu_menn -> 6474 : 6461 The_Thursday_Night_Hacker : The_Thursday_Night_Hacker -> 6474 : 6474 RedDevils : infolab_team -> 6474 : 6513 GameThrow : infolab_team -> 6474 : 6526 cornflower : cornflower -> 6472 : 6466 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : cornflower -> 6468 : 6468 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : party_of_one -> 6466 : 6458 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team -> 6464 : 6457 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : skule_tm_rules_exclaim -> 6464 : 6452 KNOBEL_IGEL : RedDevils -> 6462 : 6433 The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln -> 6461 : 6389 team_renaissance : URi -> 6458 : 6200 skule_tm_rules_exclaim : Timothy_Truckle -> 6456 : 6461 skule_tm_rules_exclaim : skule_tm_rules_exclaim -> 6453 : 6457 URi : cornflower -> 6447 : 6521 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : GameThrow -> 6440 : 1340 skule_tm_rules_exclaim : Quantum_Leap -> 6431 : 6482 GameThrow : team_renaissance -> 6423 : 4387 team_renaissance : cornflower -> 6420 : 6307 johnny_von_neu_menn : party_of_one -> 6416 : 165 party_of_one : RedDevils -> 6411 : 5939 team_renaissance : Timothy_Truckle -> 6401 : 6233 Natural_Forces : test2 -> 6397 : 1656 KNOBEL_IGEL : the_propeller_heads -> 6390 : 6413 team_renaissance : RedDevils -> 6306 : 6214 team_renaissance : Ramdu -> 6293 : 6245 the_empire_of_entropy : Timothy_Truckle -> 6287 : 6274 Ramdu : test2 -> 6283 : 1192 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : team_renaissance -> 6233 : 6352 team_renaissance : team_renaissance -> 6215 : 6224 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : skule_tm_rules_exclaim -> 6123 : 2615 GameThrow : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 6086 : 3576 the_dutch_dream_team : Natural_Forces -> 6030 : 1666 KNOBEL_IGEL : party_of_one -> 5979 : 333 team_renaissance : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> 5914 : 6030 KNOBEL_IGEL : The_Sheep_Connection -> 5866 : 1685 Natural_Forces : The_Sheep_Connection -> 5855 : 1446 hungarian_blues : fribyte -> 5853 : 2464 johnny_von_neu_menn : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 5805 : 553 The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : the_propeller_heads -> 5799 : 2936 skule_tm_rules_exclaim : The_Thursday_Night_Hacker -> 5772 : 5690 the_dutch_dream_team : The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln -> 5756 : 3101 The_Thursday_Night_Hacker : Timothy_Truckle -> 5735 : 5284 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : The_Sheep_Connection -> 5677 : 2375 the_empire_of_entropy : The_Thursday_Night_Hacker -> 5651 : 5686 cornflower : test2 -> 5641 : 1851 Ramdu : infolab_team -> 5628 : 5732 The_Thursday_Night_Hacker : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 5559 : 810 hungarian_blues : the_dutch_dream_team -> 5550 : 3940 KNOBEL_IGEL : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 5506 : 1234 The_Sheep_Connection : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 5472 : 714 the_dutch_dream_team : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 5445 : 3508 johnny_von_neu_menn : the_dutch_dream_team -> 5376 : 632 johnny_von_neu_menn : teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins -> 5315 : 2089 party_of_one : the_propeller_heads -> 5267 : 5334 The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : cornflower -> 5265 : 2712 The_Thursday_Night_Hacker : Ramdu -> 5260 : 5416 trailer : the_knowing_knobler -> 5255 : 2327 hungarian_blues : test2 -> 5226 : 2889 KNOBEL_IGEL : johnny_von_neu_menn -> 5210 : 1336 KNOBEL_IGEL : the_dutch_dream_team -> 5208 : 3380 the_dutch_dream_team : RedDevils -> 5169 : 4165 KNOBEL_IGEL : teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins -> 5164 : 4354 johnny_von_neu_menn : GameThrow -> 5141 : 3240 trailer : the_dutch_dream_team -> 5138 : 3001 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : the_dutch_dream_team -> 5130 : 2960 johnny_von_neu_menn : hungarian_blues -> 5128 : 2250 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins -> 5000 : 4490 trailer : RedDevils -> 4988 : 2641 The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : team_renaissance -> 4977 : 2499 infolab_team : freckled_geckos -> 4905 : 650 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : the_knowing_knobler -> 4904 : 2301 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins -> 4892 : 4592 johnny_von_neu_menn : Quantum_Leap -> 4872 : 836 cornflower : the_knowing_knobler -> 4848 : 2775 GameThrow : The_Thursday_Night_Hacker -> 4831 : 7470 The_Spanish_Inquisition : Ramdu -> 4780 : 4820 KNOBEL_IGEL : Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square -> 4762 : 4125 hungarian_blues : Quantum_Leap -> 4751 : 3023 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : math_against_entropy -> 4749 : 4637 KNOBEL_IGEL : infolab_team -> 4720 : 4566 Quantum_Leap : test2 -> 4719 : 1613 The_Thursday_Night_Hacker : test2 -> 4716 : 1133 the_empire_of_entropy : GameThrow -> 4694 : 4695 The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 4685 : 2411 johnny_von_neu_menn : Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team -> 4666 : 1913 hungarian_blues : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 4663 : 3416 trailer : the_propeller_heads -> 4642 : 1234 Natural_Forces : RedDevils -> 4612 : 883 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : RedDevils -> 4598 : 1119 The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : RedDevils -> 4545 : 2372 The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : freckled_geckos -> 4480 : 2314 trailer : The_Sheep_Connection -> 4470 : 2793 trailer : teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins -> 4457 : 2286 the_empire_of_entropy : team_renaissance -> 4439 : 4783 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : test2 -> 4397 : 938 GameThrow : the_knowing_knobler -> 4364 : 3704 KNOBEL_IGEL : fribyte -> 4146 : 1574 KNOBEL_IGEL : the_knowing_knobler -> 4143 : 2667 the_propeller_heads : cornflower -> 4128 : 1213 trailer : hungarian_blues -> 4092 : 1390 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : the_knowing_knobler -> 4084 : 3167 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : GameThrow -> 4082 : 3559 the_empire_of_entropy : the_knowing_knobler -> 4046 : 4119 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : hungarian_blues -> 4038 : 1733 hungarian_blues : the_propeller_heads -> 4022 : 3598 math_against_entropy : cornflower -> 4013 : 3512 trailer : test2 -> 4002 : 2410 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : the_empire_of_entropy -> 3948 : 3559 trailer : Quantum_Leap -> 3946 : 1990 The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : math_against_entropy -> 3931 : 1967 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : math_against_entropy -> 3918 : 3484 The_Thursday_Night_Hacker : the_knowing_knobler -> 3857 : 3117 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 3812 : 3819 fribyte : the_knowing_knobler -> 3787 : 1988 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln -> 3783 : 1993 the_empire_of_entropy : hungarian_blues -> 3770 : 3775 trailer : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 3756 : 2990 cornflower : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 3707 : 4081 The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : party_of_one -> 3705 : 1883 the_dutch_dream_team : cornflower -> 3696 : 4971 team_renaissance : test2 -> 3668 : 1696 the_dutch_dream_team : GameThrow -> 3634 : 2052 the_empire_of_entropy : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 3630 : 3995 the_empire_of_entropy : skule_tm_rules_exclaim -> 3629 : 3652 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 3626 : 3278 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : hungarian_blues -> 3621 : 2607 johnny_von_neu_menn : freckled_geckos -> 3618 : 1974 the_empire_of_entropy : RedDevils -> 3614 : 3708 trailer : math_against_entropy -> 3610 : 2944 KNOBEL_IGEL : hungarian_blues -> 3608 : 1752 The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : the_knowing_knobler -> 3591 : 2654 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : fribyte -> 3586 : 3338 trailer : The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln -> 3577 : 3641 the_empire_of_entropy : party_of_one -> 3576 : 3634 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : team_renaissance -> 3571 : 3192 hungarian_blues : cornflower -> 3568 : 3717 KNOBEL_IGEL : The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln -> 3564 : 2036 johnny_von_neu_menn : the_empire_of_entropy -> 3553 : 2424 trailer : team_renaissance -> 3541 : 2890 the_empire_of_entropy : Quantum_Leap -> 3527 : 3526 The_Thursday_Night_Hacker : math_against_entropy -> 3525 : 3448 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : cornflower -> 3454 : 3954 hungarian_blues : The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln -> 3429 : 2511 KNOBEL_IGEL : freckled_geckos -> 3429 : 1798 trailer : the_empire_of_entropy -> 3427 : 3131 GameThrow : Natural_Forces -> 3413 : 3343 infolab_team : the_knowing_knobler -> 3398 : 2033 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : URi -> 3396 : 3390 johnny_von_neu_menn : The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln -> 3396 : 2508 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square -> 3379 : 3483 the_empire_of_entropy : Natural_Forces -> 3361 : 3411 the_empire_of_entropy : the_propeller_heads -> 3352 : 3354 hungarian_blues : RedDevils -> 3343 : 3731 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team -> 3334 : 1296 the_empire_of_entropy : test2 -> 3308 : 3319 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : URi -> 3305 : 2966 the_dutch_dream_team : math_against_entropy -> 3292 : 3159 The_Sheep_Connection : freckled_geckos -> 3289 : 1993 The_Sheep_Connection : math_against_entropy -> 3279 : 2945 skule_tm_rules_exclaim : URi -> 3276 : 1343 Ramdu : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 3257 : 537 johnny_von_neu_menn : math_against_entropy -> 3253 : 2990 the_empire_of_entropy : The_Sheep_Connection -> 3247 : 3317 trailer : fribyte -> 3240 : 3564 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : the_dutch_dream_team -> 3226 : 349 trailer : skule_tm_rules_exclaim -> 3201 : 1534 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : skule_tm_rules_exclaim -> 3199 : 3384 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : party_of_one -> 3194 : 2984 the_dutch_dream_team : skule_tm_rules_exclaim -> 3186 : 1167 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : cornflower -> 3149 : 2840 Quantum_Leap : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 3148 : 2702 fribyte : team_renaissance -> 3128 : 2814 trailer : URi -> 3127 : 2066 team_renaissance : Quantum_Leap -> 3109 : 1741 The_Thursday_Night_Hacker : URi -> 3104 : 1212 Natural_Forces : the_knowing_knobler -> 3085 : 6002 hungarian_blues : hungarian_blues -> 3083 : 2993 KNOBEL_IGEL : the_empire_of_entropy -> 3066 : 2643 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : trailer -> 3062 : 3322 RedDevils : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 3060 : 4838 the_propeller_heads : freckled_geckos -> 3059 : 2127 johnny_von_neu_menn : trailer -> 3054 : 4601 skule_tm_rules_exclaim : cornflower -> 3028 : 3973 The_Thursday_Night_Hacker : Quantum_Leap -> 3028 : 2223 the_empire_of_entropy : teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins -> 3019 : 3040 team_renaissance : the_knowing_knobler -> 3018 : 1592 math_against_entropy : test2 -> 3014 : 2929 trailer : trailer -> 3001 : 2871 freckled_geckos : freckled_geckos -> 2988 : 2814 the_empire_of_entropy : The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln -> 2970 : 3130 trailer : cornflower -> 2960 : 2421 skule_tm_rules_exclaim : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 2957 : 2627 The_Spanish_Inquisition : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 2951 : 1351 the_empire_of_entropy : fribyte -> 2942 : 3571 johnny_von_neu_menn : skule_tm_rules_exclaim -> 2932 : 1940 URi : test2 -> 2907 : 315 the_empire_of_entropy : math_against_entropy -> 2905 : 3624 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : RedDevils -> 2883 : 2468 The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : Quantum_Leap -> 2882 : 2058 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : test2 -> 2862 : 2227 johnny_von_neu_menn : Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square -> 2861 : 4643 The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : test2 -> 2859 : 4342 The_Spanish_Inquisition : the_knowing_knobler -> 2832 : 401 the_propeller_heads : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 2828 : 4549 hungarian_blues : freckled_geckos -> 2812 : 2848 skule_tm_rules_exclaim : the_knowing_knobler -> 2804 : 2214 KNOBEL_IGEL : trailer -> 2797 : 2347 team_renaissance : freckled_geckos -> 2750 : 1806 The_Thursday_Night_Hacker : freckled_geckos -> 2740 : 2563 RedDevils : cornflower -> 2726 : 4194 Quantum_Leap : the_knowing_knobler -> 2711 : 8288 the_dutch_dream_team : freckled_geckos -> 2708 : 4928 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : Natural_Forces -> 2705 : 2100 GameThrow : The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln -> 2702 : 2508 math_against_entropy : freckled_geckos -> 2631 : 3639 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : team_renaissance -> 2628 : 919 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : The_Thursday_Night_Hacker -> 2614 : 3386 Natural_Forces : Quantum_Leap -> 2600 : 715 fribyte : skule_tm_rules_exclaim -> 2581 : 2372 The_Sheep_Connection : The_Sheep_Connection -> 2566 : 2805 team_renaissance : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 2562 : 1942 johnny_von_neu_menn : The_Sheep_Connection -> 2557 : 2619 GameThrow : cornflower -> 2533 : 5609 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : freckled_geckos -> 2524 : 2274 cornflower : freckled_geckos -> 2519 : 3843 fribyte : math_against_entropy -> 2492 : 2489 Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 2492 : 2692 fribyte : fribyte -> 2491 : 2451 fribyte : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 2490 : 2727 party_of_one : cornflower -> 2488 : 3511 the_empire_of_entropy : cornflower -> 2473 : 3438 KNOBEL_IGEL : The_Thursday_Night_Hacker -> 2464 : 2568 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln -> 2459 : 1894 the_dutch_dream_team : test2 -> 2455 : 4787 Natural_Forces : Natural_Forces -> 2448 : 520 skule_tm_rules_exclaim : Ramdu -> 2432 : 3761 trailer : party_of_one -> 2393 : 2262 Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze : freckled_geckos -> 2393 : 4061 GameThrow : freckled_geckos -> 2385 : 2940 johnny_von_neu_menn : URi -> 2379 : 27 The_Sheep_Connection : URi -> 2379 : 27 fribyte : The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln -> 2376 : 4698 party_of_one : URi -> 2373 : 2 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : the_propeller_heads -> 2355 : 3218 the_dutch_dream_team : the_propeller_heads -> 2354 : 3789 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : The_Sheep_Connection -> 2316 : 4220 skule_tm_rules_exclaim : RedDevils -> 2314 : 7567 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : the_knowing_knobler -> 2309 : 6201 johnny_von_neu_menn : Natural_Forces -> 2300 : 4978 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : The_Thursday_Night_Hacker -> 2295 : 2086 hungarian_blues : URi -> 2280 : 1868 fribyte : RedDevils -> 2279 : 2466 trailer : freckled_geckos -> 2249 : 3611 the_empire_of_entropy : the_dutch_dream_team -> 2233 : 2236 the_knowing_knobler : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 2225 : 4745 The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : The_Thursday_Night_Hacker -> 2221 : 3669 The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : The_Sheep_Connection -> 2206 : 3800 Natural_Forces : URi -> 2197 : 86 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : the_propeller_heads -> 2174 : 707 The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : URi -> 2171 : 553 The_Thursday_Night_Hacker : infolab_team -> 2170 : 854 the_dutch_dream_team : fribyte -> 2168 : 6223 hungarian_blues : The_Sheep_Connection -> 2153 : 5246 infolab_team : test2 -> 2151 : 600 party_of_one : freckled_geckos -> 2127 : 2236 RedDevils : freckled_geckos -> 2093 : 4362 Quantum_Leap : cornflower -> 2079 : 2820 The_Spanish_Inquisition : test2 -> 2074 : 797 skule_tm_rules_exclaim : freckled_geckos -> 2060 : 2264 the_dutch_dream_team : infolab_team -> 2047 : 116 party_of_one : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 2023 : 1792 The_Spanish_Inquisition : freckled_geckos -> 2015 : 463 The_Spanish_Inquisition : cornflower -> 2013 : 660 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : The_Sheep_Connection -> 2005 : 5003 math_against_entropy : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 1983 : 2348 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : freckled_geckos -> 1953 : 3383 skule_tm_rules_exclaim : test2 -> 1942 : 2273 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln -> 1938 : 3748 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : The_Thursday_Night_Hacker -> 1926 : 3277 the_knowing_knobler : freckled_geckos -> 1923 : 3415 skule_tm_rules_exclaim : party_of_one -> 1917 : 3530 Natural_Forces : cornflower -> 1908 : 939 skule_tm_rules_exclaim : The_Sheep_Connection -> 1901 : 2693 The_Thursday_Night_Hacker : The_Sheep_Connection -> 1890 : 2002 Natural_Forces : fribyte -> 1882 : 971 fribyte : Quantum_Leap -> 1879 : 3696 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins -> 1876 : 2326 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 1864 : 4153 hungarian_blues : team_renaissance -> 1863 : 4675 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : trailer -> 1858 : 4274 johnny_von_neu_menn : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> 1841 : 1508 team_renaissance : party_of_one -> 1836 : 1842 freckled_geckos : test2 -> 1826 : 4111 Quantum_Leap : freckled_geckos -> 1819 : 2900 johnny_von_neu_menn : The_Thursday_Night_Hacker -> 1786 : 1600 the_empire_of_entropy : freckled_geckos -> 1773 : 3026 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : freckled_geckos -> 1738 : 3281 Natural_Forces : infolab_team -> 1735 : 552 The_Sheep_Connection : the_knowing_knobler -> 1734 : 6848 fribyte : party_of_one -> 1727 : 7112 hungarian_blues : teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins -> 1705 : 3558 johnny_von_neu_menn : the_knowing_knobler -> 1694 : 6988 infolab_team : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 1689 : 1998 skule_tm_rules_exclaim : math_against_entropy -> 1671 : 5437 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : infolab_team -> 1667 : 434 The_Spanish_Inquisition : The_Sheep_Connection -> 1657 : 1829 johnny_von_neu_menn : infolab_team -> 1628 : 1102 the_propeller_heads : the_knowing_knobler -> 1601 : 7366 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : infolab_team -> 1588 : 3390 The_Thursday_Night_Hacker : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> 1579 : 1310 the_dutch_dream_team : teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins -> 1572 : 3583 party_of_one : Quantum_Leap -> 1571 : 688 team_renaissance : math_against_entropy -> 1562 : 1829 The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> 1537 : 3133 the_empire_of_entropy : Ramdu -> 1515 : 1566 the_dutch_dream_team : URi -> 1452 : 553 The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : skule_tm_rules_exclaim -> 1398 : 750 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : Timothy_Truckle -> 1369 : 13 math_against_entropy : the_knowing_knobler -> 1368 : 8995 RedDevils : The_Thursday_Night_Hacker -> 1362 : 2765 The_Sheep_Connection : Timothy_Truckle -> 1361 : 107 the_empire_of_entropy : infolab_team -> 1321 : 1346 the_dutch_dream_team : the_knowing_knobler -> 1315 : 4861 johnny_von_neu_menn : Timothy_Truckle -> 1284 : 68 the_dutch_dream_team : The_Thursday_Night_Hacker -> 1274 : 5901 Natural_Forces : party_of_one -> 1270 : 6559 Ramdu : freckled_geckos -> 1269 : 805 Natural_Forces : math_against_entropy -> 1265 : 33 the_dutch_dream_team : team_renaissance -> 1239 : 4453 trailer : Timothy_Truckle -> 1228 : 73 Timothy_Truckle : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 1208 : 1379 skule_tm_rules_exclaim : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> 1195 : 2341 party_of_one : infolab_team -> 1183 : 2082 party_of_one : Timothy_Truckle -> 1181 : 70 skule_tm_rules_exclaim : team_renaissance -> 1163 : 1144 Ramdu : cornflower -> 1148 : 278 trailer : The_Thursday_Night_Hacker -> 1143 : 1297 the_dutch_dream_team : Quantum_Leap -> 1117 : 3084 infolab_team : cornflower -> 1115 : 1216 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : Timothy_Truckle -> 1104 : 0 hungarian_blues : The_Thursday_Night_Hacker -> 1044 : 3628 Natural_Forces : The_Thursday_Night_Hacker -> 1033 : 4649 hungarian_blues : infolab_team -> 992 : 3886 Natural_Forces : Timothy_Truckle -> 992 : 48 skule_tm_rules_exclaim : infolab_team -> 990 : 2465 GameThrow : The_Sheep_Connection -> 974 : 8530 infolab_team : The_Sheep_Connection -> 968 : 1557 trailer : infolab_team -> 937 : 1392 trailer : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> 924 : 1565 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> 888 : 2271 the_dutch_dream_team : The_Sheep_Connection -> 882 : 6200 team_renaissance : The_Thursday_Night_Hacker -> 866 : 1527 trailer : Ramdu -> 864 : 233 johnny_von_neu_menn : Ramdu -> 850 : 126 Natural_Forces : team_renaissance -> 820 : 4169 GameThrow : party_of_one -> 783 : 2965 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : Ramdu -> 772 : 341 Quantum_Leap : The_Sheep_Connection -> 708 : 5321 fribyte : infolab_team -> 705 : 2221 the_dutch_dream_team : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> 686 : 2852 the_propeller_heads : The_Thursday_Night_Hacker -> 664 : 6610 Natural_Forces : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> 567 : 978 fribyte : The_Thursday_Night_Hacker -> 547 : 6019 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : Ramdu -> 545 : 145 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : Natural_Forces -> 531 : 2296 the_dutch_dream_team : Timothy_Truckle -> 511 : 6349 party_of_one : Ramdu -> 437 : 4520 hungarian_blues : Timothy_Truckle -> 432 : 199 URi : freckled_geckos -> 416 : 2213 Ramdu : the_knowing_knobler -> 411 : 794 hungarian_blues : Natural_Forces -> 397 : 4112 party_of_one : The_Thursday_Night_Hacker -> 393 : 6251 RedDevils : The_Sheep_Connection -> 330 : 7124 hungarian_blues : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> 328 : 2311 Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> 326 : 2496 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : party_of_one -> 319 : 1760 RedDevils : the_knowing_knobler -> 299 : 1426 hungarian_blues : Ramdu -> 294 : 1576 the_propeller_heads : The_Sheep_Connection -> 271 : 6666 Ramdu : The_Sheep_Connection -> 247 : 879 party_of_one : The_Sheep_Connection -> 220 : 6285 The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : infolab_team -> 190 : 369 team_renaissance : the_propeller_heads -> 187 : 6747 teenage_mutant_ninja_terrapins : Quantum_Leap -> 172 : 2434 party_of_one : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> 163 : 3579 party_of_one : the_knowing_knobler -> 162 : 91 team_renaissance : The_Sheep_Connection -> 151 : 6399 URi : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 151 : 2172 Natural_Forces : Die_knobelnden_Faulpelze -> 123 : 11911 Timothy_Truckle : cornflower -> 117 : 396 the_dutch_dream_team : Ramdu -> 113 : 313 Timothy_Truckle : freckled_geckos -> 110 : 1129 the_knowing_knobler : the_knowing_knobler -> 108 : 85 Timothy_Truckle : the_knowing_knobler -> 98 : 1198 Natural_Forces : Ramdu -> 87 : 5722 team_renaissance : infolab_team -> 78 : 25 Natural_Forces : freckled_geckos -> 76 : 11873 the_dutch_dream_team : party_of_one -> 51 : 3104 URi : the_knowing_knobler -> 2 : 2326 the_dutch_dream_team : the_dutch_dream_team -> 0 : 0 party_of_one : party_of_one -> 0 : 0 hungarian_blues : skule_tm_rules_exclaim -> Failure of player 2 hungarian_blues : skule_tm_rules_exclaim -> Failure of player 2 fribyte : The_Spanish_Inquisition -> -- : -- fribyte : The_Sheep_Connection -> -- : -- fribyte : the_propeller_heads -> Failure of player 1 fribyte : freckled_geckos -> -- : -- fribyte : Timothy_Truckle -> -- : -- fribyte : cornflower -> -- : -- fribyte : test2 -> -- : -- fribyte : Ramdu -> Failure of player 1 fribyte : Ramdu -> -- : -- fribyte : URi -> -- : -- The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : Timothy_Truckle -> Failure of player 1 The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : Timothy_Truckle -> -- : -- The_God_of_Gods_of_Knobeln : Ramdu -> Failure of player 1 Jim_and_Daves_excellent_team : fribyte -> -- : -- Inhabitants_of_Paper_Square : fribyte -> -- : -- GameThrow : fribyte -> -- : -- Note that the best strategies produce lots of games with perfect or almost perfect cooperation. Note also that in particular KNOBEL_IGEL is as well capable of brutally exploiting weak opponents. The 0:0 games of 'the dutch dream team' and 'party of one' against themselves occur because these two strategies (from the 1993 contest) are deterministic and thus produce just a long series of ties. Lutz