Telephone game (game theory)

This article is about a game theory example of a coordination game. For the children's game known as "telephone" in North America, see Chinese whispers.

The Telephone game is an example of a coordination game potentially having more than one Nash equilibrium proposed by David Lewis. The game was based on a convention in Lewis's home town of Oberlin, Ohio that when a telephone call was cut off then the caller would redial the callee.[1]

  1. ^ Pietarinen, Ahti-Veikko (30 Jun 2007). Game Theory and Linguistic Meaning. BRILL. p. 76. ISBN 978-0080548524. Retrieved 10 November 2020.