Chadwick Gambit: Software Tools for Game Theory

Welcome to Gambit#

Gambit is a library of game theory software and tools for the construction and analysis of finite extensive and strategic games. Gambit is fully-cross platform, and is supported on Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.

Key features of Gambit include:

Gambit is Free/Open Source software, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2.

We hope you will find Gambit useful for both teaching and research applications. If you do use Gambit in a class, or in a paper, we would like to hear about it. We are especially interested in finding out what you like about Gambit, and where you think improvements could be made.

If you are citing Gambit in a paper, we suggest a citation of the form:

Savani, Rahul and Turocy, Theodore L. (2024) Gambit: The package for computation in game theory, Version 16.1.1. http://www.gambit-project.org.

Replace the version number and year as appropriate if you use a different release.

Python user guide

An introduction to using the pygambit package in Python.

User guide

Python API reference

The complete reference to all the functionality of pygambit.

API documentation

Command-line tools

All Gambit’s methods for equilibrium computation are available via command-line programs.

Command-line tools

Graphical interface

Gambit’s graphical interface lets you interactively create, explore, and find equilibria of games.

The graphical interface