With all the arrows drawn in we see that there are two possible outcomes from which no arrows point away. If both play High, neither will wish to change so long as the other doesn't. The same is true if both play Low. Once again we have a game with two Nash equilibria.

   In this case it's a little easier to predict an outcome. The payoffs are sufficiently better for both players playing High than for both playing Low that in this case this is our best prediction. In more advanced courses you would study some "refinements" of the Nash equilibrium concept that have been developed to help solve games with multiple equilibria.

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