Pymetrics Games Planning and Strategy Games 5

Question 1

In a Pymetrics multi-player planning game, your team must collectively reach a score of 100 in 5 rounds. After 3 rounds you have 45 points. What average score per round do you need in the final 2 rounds?

Accepted Answer

27.5

Answer

You need 100 − 45 = 55 more points over 2 rounds, so 55 ÷ 2 = 27.5 points per round.

Question 2

A Pymetrics spatial planning game requires you to mentally rotate a 3D shape and determine if it matches a target. This task PRIMARILY measures:

Accepted Answer

Visuospatial reasoning and mental manipulation

Answer

Mental rotation tasks directly assess visuospatial reasoning — the ability to mentally transform and compare 3D objects.

Question 3

In a Pymetrics strategy game where you choose to 'cooperate' or 'defect' each round against the same opponent, the Tit-for-Tat strategy dictates you should:

Accepted Answer

Copy the opponent's previous move each round

Answer

Tit-for-Tat starts with cooperation and then mirrors the opponent's last action, making it retaliatory to defection but forgiving of cooperation.

Question 4

In a Pymetrics planning game, you must deliver packages to 4 locations starting and ending at a depot. You can visit locations in any order. This is an example of which classic problem type?

Accepted Answer

The Travelling Salesman Problem

Answer

Finding the shortest route visiting multiple locations and returning to the origin is the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP).

Question 5

A Pymetrics game rewards you $10 if both players choose 'A,' $6 each if both choose 'B,' but $15 for one player and $0 for the other if they choose differently. Without communication, the MOST common coordination outcome is:

Accepted Answer

Both choose A (the safer mutual payoff)

Answer

In coordination games without communication, players gravitate toward the 'focal point' — the option that feels natural or salient, which here is the symmetric $10/$10 outcome.

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Pymetrics Games Planning and Strategy Games 5