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Mario Kart Is Hard

2016; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-48532-4_5

1611-3349

Jeffrey Bosboom, Erik D. Demaine, Adam Hesterberg, Jayson Lynch, Erik Waingarten,

Gambling Behavior and Treatments

Nintendo's Mario Kart is perhaps the most popular racing video game franchise. Players race alone or against opponents to finish in the fastest time possible. Players can also use items to attack and defend from other racers. We prove two hardness results for generalized Mario Kart: deciding whether a driver can finish a course alone in some given time is $$\mathrm {NP}$$ -hard, and deciding whether a player can beat an opponent in a race is $$\mathrm {PSPACE}$$ -hard.