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We study a variant of the classical Wythoff's game. The classical form is played with two piles of stones, from which two players take turns to remove stones from one or both piles. When removing stones from both piles, an equal number must…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Kahori Komaki , Ryohei Miyadera , Aoi Murakami

We introduce a restriction of Wythoff's game, which we call F-Wythoff, in which the integer ratio of entries must not change if an equal number of tokens are removed from both piles. We show that P-positions of F-Wythoff are exactly those…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-26 Nhan Bao Ho

In this paper we express the difference of two complementary Beatty sequences, as the sum of two Beatty sequences closely related to them. In the process we introduce a new Algorithm that generalizes the well known Minimum Excluded…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Geremias Polanco

In this paper, we study a variant of the classical Wythoff's game. The classical form is played with two piles of stones, from which two players take turns to remove stones from one or both piles. When removing stones from both piles, an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Kahori Komaki , Ryohei Miyadera , Aoi Murakami

We determine the full nim-value structure of additive subtraction games in the {\em primitive quadratic} regime. The problem appears in Winning Ways by Berlekamp et al. in 1982; it includes a closed formula, involving Beatty-type {\em…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Urban Larsson , Hikaru Manabe

Given $k\ge 3$ heaps of tokens. The moves of the 2-player game introduced here are to either take a positive number of tokens from at most $k-1$ heaps, or to remove the {\sl same} positive number of tokens from all the $k$ heaps. We analyse…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aviezri S. Fraenkel , Dmitri Zusman

In this paper, we consider a modular extension to the game of Nim, which we call $m$-Modular Nim, and explore its optimal strategy. In $m$-Modular Nim, a player can either make a standard Nim move or remove a multiple of $m$ tokens in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-31 Tanya Khovanova , Karan Sarkar

Extending the theory of systems, we introduce a theory of Lie semialgebra ``pairs'' which parallels the classical theory of Lie algebras, but with a ``null set'' replacing $0$. A selection of examples is given. These Lie pairs comprise two…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Letterio Gatto , Louis Rowen

Yama Nim is a two heaps Nim game introduced in the second author's Master Thesis, where the player takes more than $2$ tokens from one heap, and return $1$ token to the other heap. Triangular Nim is a generalization, where the player takes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Shun-ichi Kimura , Takahiro Yamashita

Winning sets of Schmidt's game enjoy a remarkable rigidity. Therefore, this game (and modifications of it) have been applied to many examples of complete metric spaces (X, d) to show that the set of "badly approximable points", with respect…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-09-19 Steffen Weil

We modify Wythoff's game by allowing an additional move, which we call a "split", and show how the $P$-positions are coded by the Tribonacci word. We analyze the table of letter positions of arbitrary $k$-bonacci words and find a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Robbert Fokkink , Dan Rust

Two Beatty sequences are recorded by athletes running in opposite directions in a round stadium. This approach suggests a nice interpretation for well known partitioning criteria: such sequences (eventually) partition the integers…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-29 Y. Ginosar , I. Yona

Subset take-away is a two-player game involving a fixed finite set A. Players alternate choosing a proper, non-empty subset of A, with the condition that one may not name a set containing a set that was named earlier. A player unable to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-05 J. Daniel Christensen , Mark Tilford

We prove that for any $s,t\ge0$ with $s+t=1$ and any $\theta\in\mathbb{R}$ with $\inf_{q\in\mathbb{N}}q^{\frac{1}{s}}\|q\theta\|>0$, the set of $y\in\mathbb{R}$ for which $(\theta,y)$ is $(s,t)$-badly approximable is 1/2-winning for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Jinpeng An

Partially-ordered set games, also called poset games, are a class of two-player combinatorial games. The playing field consists of a set of elements, some of which are greater than other elements. Two players take turns removing an element…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-22 Adam O. Kalinich

We introduce a new generalization of Wythoff Nim using three piles of stones. We show that its P-positions have finite difference properties and produce a partition of positive integers. Further, we give a conjecture that the P-positions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Shigeki Akiyama

Bachet's game is a variant of the game of Nim. There are $n$ objects in one pile. Two players take turns to remove any positive number of objects not exceeding some fixed number $m$. The player who takes the last object loses. We consider a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Dmitry Dagaev , Ilya Schurov

The paper is devoted to inverse Stackelberg games with many players. We consider both static and differential games. The main assumption of the paper is the compactness of the strategy sets. We obtain the characterization of inverse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-21 Yurii Averboukh

The seminal theorem of Cobham has given rise during the last 40 years to a lot of works around non-standard numeration systems and has been extended to many contexts. In this paper, as a result of fifteen years of improvements, we obtain a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-21 Fabien Durand

This paper has two parts. The first is concerned with a variant of a family of games introduced by Holy and Schlicht, that we call \emph{Welch games}. Player II having a winning strategy in the Welch game of length $\omega$ on $\kappa$ is…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Matthew Foreman , Menachem Magidor , Martin Zeman