Games of Searching and Guessing

Abstract

Every one of us spends a great portion of our lives looking for things. Just think of looking for articles of clothing or for utensils in a department store, for good programs on television and for all those misplaced or lost items. Or consider the search for just the right word when speaking or an efficient algorithm when calculating. To put it more generally, every act of problem solving involves searching. In a sense all goal-directed activity can be categorized as “Searching.”