Lab experiment
Axelrod arena: score first, then evolve
Replay the published iterated Prisoner's Dilemma tournament format—200 moves, self-play, five round robins—then switch to an evolutionary experiment where scoring strategies reproduce, mutate, and survive. Everything runs locally; colour shows who is thriving.
Experiment
Strategies· 7
Tournament rules
200moves per pairing
5complete round robins
Self-playevery strategy meets its twin
5 · 3 · 1 · 0temptation, reward, punishment, sucker
This reproduces the published tournament format with the strategies selected above; it does not claim to recreate the historical submission roster.