Several sages wearing colored hats occupy the vertices of a graph. 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. Each hat can have one of three colors. A predetermined guessing strategy is winning if it guarantees at least one correct individual guess for every assignment of colors. We completely solve the problem of describing all graphs for which the sages win.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)503-520
JournalJournal of Mathematical Sciences (United States)
Volume236
Issue number5
Early online date13 Dec 2018
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018

    Scopus subject areas

  • Mathematics(all)
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Applied Mathematics

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