“Neeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrd alert!” Well, there are sexier ways to start a blog entry than a mathematician’s game theory, but that’s the path I chose, and you’re reading a cornhole building blog, so let’s not get judgy. I mean the dude got a Nobel Prize for the theory, so maybe we can just see where this goes. Russell Crowe made the theory digestible in the movie “A Beautiful Mind”. In the film, Crowe played the character of John Nash, who had an epiphany while getting schlonkered with his boys at a pub, as a blonde bombshell walked in, accompanied by a few cute brunette friends. Nash deduced that all of his horny friends were going to try and hook up with the blonde. Knowing that they would ultimately block each other from being able to achieve this feat, the next logical move for his friends, would be to shift focus to the brunettes, who would certainly shut them down again, because they would clearly be the second choice. His theory was that, if the guys could all agree to go straight for the brunettes, ignoring the blonde, they could ALL have a pretty solid chance of getting laid. I mean they were college age mathematicians in the 1940s after all, so the odds were totally in their favor from the onset.