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Zap. Nauchn. Sem. POMI, 2020 Volume 498, Pages 26–37 (Mi znsl7033)

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The Hats game. The power of constructors

K. P. Kokhasa, A. S. Latyshevb

a Saint Petersburg State University
b St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics

Abstract: We analyze the following general variant of the deterministic Hats game. Several sages wearing colored hats occupy the vertices of a graph. Each sage can have a hat of one of $k$ colors. Each sage tries to guess the color of his own hat merely on the basis of observing the hats of his neighbors without exchanging any information. A predetermined guessing strategy is winning if it guarantees at least one correct individual guess for every assignment of colors.
We present an example of a planar graph for which the sages win for $k=14$. We also give an easy proof of the theorem about the Hats game on “windmill” graphs.

Key words and phrases: hat guessing number, hat chromatic number, hat guessing game.

UDC: 519.17, 519.83

Received: 07.12.2020



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