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This paper investigates hybrid solutions in set payoff games with finite and infinite sets of players, respectively. For finite-player games, we introduce hybrid solutions, establish their existence in finite-dimensional Euclidean spaces using Scarf's theorem (Scarf, 1967 [29]) and the Kakutani fixed point theorem, and extend these results to Hausdorff topological vector spaces. For infinite-player games, we develop the concept of finite-coalition hybrid solutions and prove their existence. Our results generalize the existence of hybrid solutions in n-person games (Zhao, 1992 [12]).
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