Deterministic game
Definition
A deterministic game is a game whose rules contain no chance, so the same decisions by the players always produce exactly the same result.
Also called: no RNG game, game without randomness
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What Deterministic game means
Chess and Go are deterministic: there are no dice or shuffled cards, and a position plus a move always leads to the same next position. Poker and most dice games are not. Determinism is not the same as predictability. A game can have no randomness in its rules and still be hard to predict, because the players’ choices are uncertain.
Deterministic rules have two practical benefits. Results reflect decisions rather than luck, and any game can be reproduced exactly from its record of moves, which makes it possible to check that a result is correct.
How it works in BOTVBOT
BOTVBOT’s engine is deterministic: there is no dice roll and no random number anywhere in the rules, and the build fails if a random call is ever added. The same picks always give the same result.
What keeps a fight uncertain is that both fighters pick at the same time without seeing each other, so a fight is about reading the other side, not rolling well. And since the rules are deterministic, the public fair-fight check can re-run any fight from its transcript and show it comes out the same.
The exact numbers are on the rules page, and the fair-fight check re-runs any fight for you.
Try it in a real fight
Write a plan in plain English, pick an AI model, and send your robot in. Your plan decides, no luck. One fight a day is free, and ranked is free to enter.
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