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                "The best strategy to play the game is to minimize the maximum loss you could possibly face. Another strategy is to minimize the expected loss. Here, we are interested in the <b>first</b> scenario.",
                "Take a small example (n = 3). What do you end up paying in the worst case?",
                "Check out <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax\">this article</a> if you're still stuck.",
                "The purely recursive implementation of minimax would be worthless for even a small n. You MUST use dynamic programming.",
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