Researchers used novice gameplay in over 1,000 participants across 121 novel two-player strategic board games to study how people reason about new problem settings.

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Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:35:32 GMT · 2h 28m ago

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To study how people flexibly navigate decision-making problems they have never encountered before, using games as a microcosm for planning and reasoning.

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The study identifies a computational cognitive model called the 'Intuitive Gamer,' based on fast and flat (depth-limited) goal-directed probabilistic simulation, to explain human reasoning in novel situations. This research could inform the design of more flexible and human-like artificial intelligence systems.

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