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Circular Nim Games

Combinatorics 2012-11-02 v1

Abstract

A circular Nim game is a two player impartial combinatorial game consisting of n stacks of tokens placed in a circle. A move consists of choosing k consecutive stacks, and taking at least one token from one or more of the k stacks. The last player able to make a move wins. We prove results on the structure of the losing positions for small n and k and pose some open questions for further investigations.

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@article{arxiv.1211.0091,
  title  = {Circular Nim Games},
  author = {Matthieu Dufour and Silvia Heubach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.0091},
  year   = {2012}
}
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