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The 13 pages that link to Mixed strategy, each with the reason it gives.

• Game theoryRelated: Randomization can make a player unpredictable and ensure equilibrium exists.

• Nash equilibriumBroader topic: Randomized choices can make players indifferent and create equilibria when no pure-strategy profile works.

• John NashRelated: Allowing randomized strategies is essential to Nash’s general existence theorem.

• Best responseRelated: Randomization can make a strategy a best response when no pure choice is stable.

• Zero-sum gameBroader topic: Randomization can prevent an opponent from exploiting predictable choices.

• Minimax theoremRelated: Randomized strategies let each player secure the theorem’s guaranteed payoff.

• Theory of Games and Economic BehaviorRelated: Randomized choices let players reach optimal strategies when no pure choice suffices.

• Dominant strategyRelated: Randomization can be optimal in games where no pure strategy dominates.

• BluffingRelated: Randomizing when to bluff prevents opponents from reliably inferring strength from behavior.

• Kakutani fixed-point theoremRelated: Allowing mixed strategies helps make best-response sets nonempty and convex in finite games.

• Normal-form gameBroader topic: Randomized choices extend the game when no pure-strategy equilibrium exists.

• Rock paper scissorsNarrower topic: Randomizing among gestures prevents an opponent from exploiting a predictable choice.

• Game (game theory)Related: Randomized choices can create equilibrium when no pure strategy profile is stable.