what are some of the assumptions about these games 
like many economic models game theory contains a set of strict assumptions that must hold for the theory to make good predictions in practice first all players are utility maximizing rational actors that have full information about the game the rules and the consequences players are not allowed to communicate or interact with one another possible outcomes are not only known in advance but also cannot be changed the number of players in a game can theoretically be infinite but most games will involve only two players 