You have been randomly and anonymously paired with another participant. Both of you must choose either option 1 or option 2. This gives four possible outcomes, each with a different payoff, as shown in the table:

In each cell, the amount to the left is the payoff for you and to the right for the other participant.

Participant B
Cooperate Defect
Participant A Cooperate {{ Constants.both_cooperate_payoff }}, {{ Constants.both_cooperate_payoff }} 0, {{ Constants.betray_payoff }}
Defect {{ Constants.betray_payoff }}, 0 {{ Constants.both_defect_payoff }}, {{ Constants.both_defect_payoff }}

Participant A is the first mover and can decide to co-operate or defect participant B. After that, participant B (the second mover) will be announced the decision of participant A and participant B have to decide whether he/she should defect or co-operate.

The scores from each round are accumulated, so the object is to optimize the point score before reaching game over.