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We study Maker-Breaker games played on the edge set of a random graph. Specifically, we consider the random graph process and analyze the first time in a typical random graph process that Maker starts having a winning strategy for his final…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-07 Sonny Ben-Shimon , Asaf Ferber , Dan Hefetz , Michael Krivelevich

The Maker-Breaker connectivity game and Hamilton cycle game belong to the best studied games in positional games theory, including results on biased games, games on random graphs and fast winning strategies. Recently, the Connector-Breaker…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Dennis Clemens , Pranshu Gupta , Yannick Mogge

Maker-Breaker games are played on a hypergraph $(X,\mathcal{F})$, where $\mathcal{F} \subseteq 2^X$ denotes the family of winning sets. Both players alternately claim a predefined amount of edges (called bias) from the board $X$, and Maker…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Dennis Clemens , Fabian Hamann , Yannick Mogge , Olaf Parczyk

We consider some biased Maker-Breaker games. Starting with the complete $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices, at each turn Maker claims one edge, and then Breaker claims $b$ edges. Maker's goal is to obtain a set of edges having some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Patrick Bennett , Alan Frieze , Wesley Pegden

By now, the Maker-Breaker connectivity game on a complete graph $K_n$ or on a random graph $G\sim G_{n,p}$ is well studied. Recently, London and Pluh\'ar suggested a variant in which Maker always needs to choose her edges in such a way that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-22 Dennis Clemens , Laurin Kirsch , Yannick Mogge

We look at the unbiased Maker-Breaker Hamiltonicity game played on the edge set of a complete graph $K_n$, where Maker's goal is to claim a Hamiltonian cycle. First, we prove that, independent of who starts, Maker can win the game for $n =…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-08 Miloš Stojaković , Nikola Trkulja

In this paper, we study Maker-Breaker games on the random hypergraph $H_{n,s,p}$, obtained from the complete $s$-graph by keeping every edge independently with probability $p$. We determine the threshold probability for the property of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Maxime Larcher

We study the Maker-Breaker $H$-game played on the edge set of the random graph $G_{n,p}$. In this game two players, Maker and Breaker, alternately claim unclaimed edges of $G_{n,p}$, until all the edges are claimed. Maker wins if he claims…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-20 Rajko Nenadov , Angelika Steger , Miloš Stojaković

We study the algorithmic complexity of Maker-Breaker games played on the edge sets of general graphs. We mainly consider the perfect matching game and the $H$-game. Maker wins if she claims the edges of a perfect matching in the first, and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Eric Duchêne , Valentin Gledel , Fionn Mc Inerney , Nicolas Nisse , Nacim Oijid , Aline Parreau , Miloš Stojaković

We study the biased $(1:b)$ Maker--Breaker positional games, played on the edge set of the complete graph on $n$ vertices, $K_n$. Given Breaker's bias $b$, possibly depending on $n$, we determine the bounds for the minimal number of moves,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Mirjana Mikalački , Miloš Stojaković

Maker-Breaker subgraph games are among the most famous combinatorial games. For given $n,q \in \mathbb{N}$ and a subgraph $C$ of the complete graph $K_n$, the two players, called Maker and Breaker, alternately claim edges of $K_n$. In each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Matthias Sowa , Anand Srivastav

We introduce and study Maker/Breaker-type positional games on random graphs. Our main concern is to determine the threshold probability $p_{F}$ for the existence of Maker's strategy to claim a member of $F$ in the unbiased game played on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Milos Stojakovic , Tibor Szabo

We consider the following combinatorial two-player game: On the random tree arising from a branching process, each round one player (Breaker) deletes an edge and by that removes the descendant and all its progeny, while the other (Maker)…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Timo Vilkas

We study the unbiased WalkerMaker-WalkerBreaker games on the edge set of the complete graph on $n$ vertices, $K_n$, a variant of well-known Maker-Breaker positional games, where both players have the restriction on the way of playing.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Jovana Forcan , Mirjana Mikalački

A set of vertices $W$ of a graph $G$ is a resolving set if every vertex of $G$ is uniquely determined by its vector of distances to $W$. In this paper, the Maker-Breaker resolving game is introduced. The game is played on a graph $G$ by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-28 Cong X. Kang , Sandi Klavžar , Ismael G. Yero , Eunjeong Yi

We study (a:a) Maker-Breaker games played on the edge set of the complete graph on n vertices. In the following four games - perfect matching game, Hamilton cycle game, star factor game and path factor game, our goal is to determine the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-09 Dennis Clemens , Mirjana Mikalački

We study biased {\em orientation games}, in which the board is the complete graph $K_n$, and Maker and Breaker take turns in directing previously undirected edges of $K_n$. At the end of the game, the obtained graph is a tournament. Maker…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-12 Ido Ben-Eliezer , Michael Krivelevich , Benny Sudakov

In a $(1:b)$ Maker-Breaker game, a primary question is to find the maximal value of $b$ that allows Maker to win the game (that is, the critical bias $b^*$). Erd\H{o}s conjectured that the critical bias for many Maker-Breaker games played…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Michael Krivelevich , Gal Kronenberg

We study the Maker-Breaker tournament game played on the edge set of a given graph $G$. Two players, Maker and Breaker claim unclaimed edges of $G$ in turns, and Maker wins if by the end of the game she claims all the edges of a pre-defined…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-23 Dennis Clemens , Mirjana Mikalački

We study the biased $(2:b)$ Walker--Breaker games, played on the edge set of the complete graph on $n$ vertices, $K_n$. These games are a variant of the Maker--Breaker games with the restriction that Walker (playing the role of Maker) has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Jovana Forcan , Mirjana Mikalački
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