The present work consisted in developing a plateau game. There are the traditional ones (monopoly, cluedo, ect.) but those which interest us leave less place at the chance (luck) than to the strategy such that the chess game. Kallah is an old African game, its rules are simple but the strategies to be used are very complex to implement. Of course, they are based on a strongly mathematical basis...

Loot boxes represent a popular and prevalent contemporary monetization innovation in video games that offers the purchasing player-consumer, who always pays set amount of money for each attempt, opportunity to obtain randomized virtual rewards uncertain in-game real-world value. have been, continue be, scrutinized by regulators policymakers because their nature is akin gambling. The regulation ...

L year, the Responsibility in Gambling Trust (RiGT) commissioned Tacade and the International Gaming Research Unit to produce education materials on youth gambling to be used in schools and other youth education settings. This initiative was featured in a previous issue of Education and Health (see Buczkiewicz & Griffiths, 2006) and the project led to the publication of two sets of comprehensiv...

Virtual reality (VR) can be used in the treatment of gambling disorder to provide emotionally charged contexts (e.g., induce cravings) where patients can practice cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) techniques in the safety of the therapist's office. This raises practical questions, such as whether the cravings are sufficient to be clinically useful but also manageable enough to remain clinically ...

Increased cognitive distortions (i.e. biased processing of chance, probability and skill) are a key psychopathological process in disordered gambling. The present study investigated state and trait aspects of cognitive distortions in 22 individuals with Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) and 22 healthy controls. Participants completed the Gambling Related Cognitions Scale as a trait measure of cogn...

In the domain of decision making under uncertainty we propose the Multiple Source Evaluation Model, focusing on (1) how information coming from different evidential sources, either converging or diverging, is integrated and (2) how Ignorance, Uncertainty and Contradiction are evaluated and reduced before deciding in ambiguous domains. We argue that these operations involve an unique satisficing...

We study online reinforcement learning in average-reward stochastic games (SGs). An SG models a two-player zero-sum game in a Markov environment, where state transitions and one-step payoffs are determined simultaneously by a learner and an adversary. We propose the UCSG algorithm that achieves a sublinear regret compared to the game value when competing with an arbitrary opponent. This result ...

Abstract Social relationships are highly salient for problem gambling. This study investigated the effect of others' presence or cooperation with others on risky gambling behavior among healthy undergraduate students. Based findings that individual differences moderate social facilitation and team performance, we also focused personality traits. A total 36 participants completed Game Dice Task ...

Loot boxes (LBs) are video game-related purchases with a chance-based outcome. Due to similarities gambling, they have come under increasing scrutiny from media, academics and policymakers alike. Initial evidence suggested that LB engagement might be associated both problem gambling (PG) gaming (PVG). We therefore conducted systematic review of the for associations between purchasing, PG PVG. F...


 Gambling is a form of behaviour that has been identified to have serious consequences on gamblers spiritual, health, academic, social relation and reported be related some criminal behaviour. Recently, there general upsurge gambling houses globally Nigeria in particular. Nasarawa South its own fair share the growth this game chance; incidentally Muslim youths are deeply involved it despi...