Homework #5

Check out the website Vax! Links to an external site.  Navigate through the tour and then play several games of Vax!* Links to an external site.  Try playing the game with both a 'turn based' and 'real-time' quarantine phase.  As you play the game, ask yourself the following question "what strategies seem to succeed?"

Based on your game play, write a short paper (1000 words or more) providing information on the following:

1. What exactly is the objective of the game and how is success measured?  As you describe the objective of the game, parallel the application (epidemics through groups) with terms we have learned from graph theory.  Integrate terms such as "vertex", "degree", and "edges".  Feel free to include screenshots of the game to help illustrate concepts in your paper.
2. What strategies do you find the most effective in playing the game?  Can you develop an algorithm that would help someone pass a given level?  Give you algorithm both in practical terms, and in graph theory terms.

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*To learn more about how the game is played, go to the main site Links to an external site. and select "tour".