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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

In the Constructor-Blocker game, two players, Constructor and Blocker, alternatively claim unclaimed edges of the complete graph $K_n$. For given graphs $F$ and $H$, Constructor can only claim edges that leave her graph $F$-free, while…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-02 József Balogh , Ce Chen , Sean English

In a Maker-Breaker game on a graph $G$, Breaker and Maker alternately claim edges of $G$. Maker wins if, after all edges have been claimed, the graph induced by his edges has some desired property. We consider four Maker-Breaker games…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-24 Andrew Beveridge , Andrzej Dudek , Alan Frieze , Tobias Muller , Milos Stojakovic

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

We introduce and analyze the Walker-Breaker game, a variant of Maker-Breaker games where Maker is constrained to choose edges of a walk or path in a given graph G, with the goal of visiting as many vertices of the underlying graph as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-08 Lisa Espig , Alan Frieze , Wesley Pegden , Michael Krivelevich

In a $(1:b)$ biased Maker-Breaker game, how good a strategy is for a player can be measured by the bias range for which its rival can win, choosing an appropriate counterstrategy. Bednarska and {\L}uczak proved that, in the $H$-subgraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Ander Lamaison

In classical Maker-Breaker games on graphs, Maker and Breaker take turns claiming edges; Maker's goal is to claim all of some structure (e.g., a spanning tree, Hamilton cycle, etc.), while Breaker aims to stop her. The standard question…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Wesley Pegden , Francesca Yu

One of the main objective of this paper is to relate Beck's conjecture for k-in-a-row games. The conjecture states that playing on the same board Picker is better off in a Chooser-Picker game than the second player in the Maker-Breaker…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-15 András Csernenszky

Consider the following hat guessing game: $n$ players are placed on $n$ vertices of a graph, each wearing a hat whose color is arbitrarily chosen from a set of $q$ possible colors. Each player can see the hat colors of his neighbors, but…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Noga Alon , Omri Ben-Eliezer , Chong Shangguan , Itzhak Tamo

For positive integers $n$ and $q$ and a monotone graph property $\cA$, we consider the two player, perfect information game $\WC(n,q,\cA)$, which is defined as follows. The game proceeds in rounds. In each round, the first player, called…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-22 Mał gorzata Bednarska-Bzdȩga , Dan Hefetz , Michael Krivelevich , Tomasz Łuczak

The strong Ramsey game $R(\mathcal{B}, H)$ is a two-player game played on a graph $\mathcal{B}$, referred to as the board, with a target graph $H$. In this game, two players, $P_1$ and $P_2$, alternately claim unclaimed edges of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Jiangdong Ai , Jun Gao , Zixiang Xu , Xin Yan

In this paper we analyze biased Maker-Breaker games and Avoider-Enforcer games, both played on the edge set of a random board $G\sim \gnp$. In Maker-Breaker games there are two players, denoted by Maker and Breaker. In each round, Maker…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Asaf Ferber , Roman Glebov , Michael Krivelevich , Alon Naor

We consider the strong Ramsey-type game $\mathcal{R}^{(k)}(\mathcal{H}, \aleph_0)$, played on the edge set of the infinite complete $k$-uniform hypergraph $K^k_{\mathbb{N}}$. Two players, called FP (the first player) and SP (the second…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-26 Dan Hefetz , Christopher Kusch , Lothar Narins , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Clément Requilé , Amir Sarid

We study the following game version of the generalized graph Tur\'an problem. For two fixed graphs $F$ and $H$, two players, Constructor and Blocker, alternately claim unclaimed edges of the complete graph $K_n$. Constructor can only claim…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Balázs Patkós , Miloš Stojaković , Máté Vizer

Let $G$ be a graph with $n$ vertices. The {\em hat guessing number} of $G$ is defined in terms of the following game: There are $n$ players and one opponent. The opponent will wear one of the $q$ hats of different colors on the player's…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Lanchao Wang , Yaojun Chen

In chomp on graphs, two players alternatingly pick an edge or a vertex from a graph. The player that cannot move any more loses. The questions one wants to answer for a given graph are: Which player has a winning strategy? Can a explicit…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Ignacio García-Marco , Kolja Knauer , Luis Pedro Montejano

The classical Maker-Breaker positional game is played on a board which is a hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$, with two players, Maker and Breaker, alternately claiming vertices of $\mathcal{H}$ until all the vertices are claimed. When the game…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Guillaume Bagan , Quentin Deschamps , Florian Galliot , Mirjana Mikalački , Nacim Oijid

We study two types of two player, perfect information games with no chance moves, played on the edge set of the binomial random graph ${\mathcal G}(n,p)$. In each round of the $(1 : q)$ Waiter-Client Hamiltonicity game, the first player,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-17 Dan Hefetz , Michael Krivelevich , Wei En Tan

We study Maker/Breaker games on the edges of sparse graphs. Maker and Breaker take turns in claiming previously unclaimed edges of a given graph H. Maker aims to occupy a given target graph G and Breaker tries to prevent Maker from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-06-17 Heidi Gebauer

We initiate the study of a new variant of the Maker-Breaker positional game, which we call multistage game. Given a hypergraph $\mathcal{H}=(\mathcal{X},\mathcal{F})$ and a bias $b \ge 1$, the $(1:b)$ multistage Maker-Breaker game on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Juri Barkey , Dennis Clemens , Fabian Hamann , Mirjana Mikalački , Amedeo Sgueglia