Experimental Results
This game is a common demonstration in game theory classes, where even economics graduate students fail to guess 0. When performed among ordinary people it is usually found that the winner guess is much higher than 0, e.g., 21.6 was the winning value in a large internet-based competition organized by the Danish newspaper Politiken. This included 19,196 people and with a prize of 5000 Danish kroner.
Creativity Games has an on-line version of the game where you play against the last 100 visitors.
The Museum of Money has an interactive flash applet of the game, where each given answer will be used to calculate the current outcome.
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