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    If the pursuer's bridge selection is causally independent... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The pair of randomizing strategies — each player rolling a three-sided die — constitutes a Nash equilibrium.

    If the pursuer's bridge selection is causally independent of the fugitive's die roll, the mixed strategy provides no consequentialist justification superior to any pure strategy yielding equal expected utility.

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    causally independent(describing the relationship between the pursuer's choice and the fugitive's die roll)
    When two things happen completely separately from each other, so one thing has no effect on whether the other happens.
    consequentialism(Applied to terrorism and legal punishment)
    The view that practices are judged solely by their consequences, such that a practice is wrong only if it has bad consequences on balance.
    expected utility(Cited as a domain where aggregated probabilities play a key role)
    A calculation that aggregates probability-weighted outcomes to determine the overall value of a decision
    mixed strategy(The uniform three-way randomization over bridges is the mixed strategy under analysis.)
    A strategy in which a player assigns probabilities over available actions and randomizes according to that distribution.

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    pure strategy(Contrasted with mixed (randomizing) strategies in the context of the bridge-crossing game.)
    A strategy in which a player deterministically selects a single action rather than randomizing over actions.

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