Blotto games

A class of two-person zero-sum games (cf. Two-person zero-sum game) in normal form in which the pure strategies (cf. Strategy (in game theory)) of the players are distributions of limited resources (indivisible or divisible) over several objects, and the gain, or payoff, is equal to the sum of the gains on the individual objects. So named after the fictional colonel Blotto who was supposed to have participated in one of the first games of this type.

References

[1]	S. Karlin, "Mathematical methods and theory in games, programming and economics" , Addison-Wesley (1959)