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A zero-player game is a game that has no human players.

In computer games, the term refers to programs that use artificial intelligence rather than human players.¹

Conway's Game of Life, a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway, in 1970, is a zero-player 'game', meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input from humans.²³

Numerous games found in everyday life are also zero-player games. For example, the popular children's games Candy Land and War are zero-player games, because their outcomes are entirely determined by the initial state—while human players advance the game state manually, they do not make any decisions.^{citation needed}

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