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Given two finite sets of integers $S\subseteq\NNN\setminus\{0\}$ and $D\subseteq\NNN\setminus\{0,1\}$,the impartial combinatorial game $\IMARK(S,D)$ is played on a heap of tokens. From a heap of $n$ tokens, each player can moveeither to a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Eric Sopena

Subtraction games is a class of combinatorial games. It was solved since the Sprague-Grundy Theory was put forward. This paper described a new algorithm for subtraction games. The new algorithm can find win or lost positions in subtraction…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-31 Guanglei He , Zhihui Qin

We describe PNim and RNim, two variants of Nim in which piles of tokens are replaced with integer partitions or hyperrectangles. In PNim, the players choose one of the integer partitions and remove a positive number of rows or a positive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Eric Gottlieb , Matjaž Krnc , Peter Muršič

Let $S$ be a set of positive integers, and let $D$ be a set of integers larger than $1$. The game $i$-Mark$(S,D)$ is an impartial combinatorial game introduced by Sopena (2016), which is played with a single pile of tokens. In each turn, a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Oren Friman , Gabriel Nivasch

Given $n$ piles of tokens and a positive integer $k \leq n$, we study the following two impartial combinatorial games Nim$^1_{n, \leq k}$ and Nim$^1_{n, =k}$. In the first (resp. second) game, a player, by one move, chooses at least $1$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Vladimir Gurvich , Nhan Bao Ho

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

Given $n$ piles of tokens and a positive integer $k \leq n$, the game Nim$^1_{n, =k}$ of exact slow $k$-Nim is played as follows. Two players move alternately. In each move, a player chooses exactly $k$ non-empty piles and removes one token…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Nikolay Chikin , Vladimir Gurvich , Konstantin Knop , Mike Paterson , Michael Vyalyi

Euclid is a well known two-player impartial combinatorial game. A position in Euclid is a pair of positive integers and the players move alternately by subtracting a positive integer multiple of one of the integers from the other integer…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-22 Grant Cairns , Nhan Bao Ho

We study 2-player impartial games, so called \emph{invariant subtraction games}, of the type, given a set of allowed moves the players take turn in moving one single piece on a large Chess board towards the position $\boldsymbol 0$. Here,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-09-23 Urban Larsson

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

We establish a relation between the Sprague-Grundy function $\text{sg}$ of a $p$-saturation of Welter's game and the degrees of the ordinary irreducible representations of symmetric groups. In this game, a position can be viewed as a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Yuki Irie

Wythoff's game as a classic combinatorial game has been well studied. In this paper, we focus on $(2n+1)$-dimensional Wythoff's game; that is the Wythoff's game with $(2n+1)$ heaps. We characterize their $\mathcal{P}$-positions explicitly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Yanxi Li , Wen Wu

Here, we present a variant of the sliding coins game. Two coins are placed on distinct squares of a semi-infinite linear board with squares numbered $0, 1, 2, dots, $. Two players take turns and move a coin to a lower unoccupied square.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Ryohei Miyadera , Hikaru Manabe , Unchon Lee

Following the solution to the One-Round Voronoi Game in arXiv:2011.13275, we naturally may want to consider similar games based upon the competitive locating of points and subsequent dividing of territories. In order to appease the tears of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Thomas Byrne

We give short rules for two-pile take-away games satisfying that a pair of complementary homogeneous Beatty sequences together with $(0,0)$ constitute a complete set of $P$-positions.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-21 Urban Larsson

We find conditions under which the P-positions of three subtraction games arise as pairs of complementary Beatty sequences. The first game is due to Fraenkel and the second is an extension of the first game to non-monotone settings. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-13 Jon Kay , Geremias Polanco

We examine the structure of the additive period of the Sprague-Grundy function of Nim-like games, among them Wythoff's Game, and deduce a bound for the length of the period and preperiod.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Jens Askgaard

We introduce CUT, the class of 2-player partition games. These are NIM type games, played on a finite number of heaps of beans. The rules are given by a set of positive integers, which specifies the number of allowed splits a player can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Antoine Dailly , Eric Duchene , Urban Larsson , Gabrielle Paris

We study 2-player impartial games of the form take-away which produce P-positions (second player winning positions) corresponding to complementary Beatty sequences, given by the continued fractions (1;k,1,k,1,...) and (k+1;k,1,k,1,...). Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-02-04 Urban Larsson , Mike Weimerskirch

This paper presents a study of restricted Nim with a pass. In the restricted Nim considered in this study, two players take turns and remove stones from the piles. In each turn, when the number of stones is m, each player is allowed to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Ryohei Miyadera , Hikaru Manabe