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Each vertex of the infinite $2$-dimensional square lattice graph is assigned, independently, a label that reads trap with probability $p$, target with probability $q$, and open with probability $(1-p-q)$, and each edge is assigned,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Dhruv Bhasin , Sayar Karmakar , Moumanti Podder , Souvik Roy

We consider biased $(1:b)$ Walker-Breaker games: Walker and Breaker alternately claim edges of the complete graph $K_n$, Walker taking one edge and Breaker claiming $b$ edges in each round, with the constraint that Walker needs to choose…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-29 Dennis Clemens , Tuan Tran

We study the (1:b) Maker-Breaker component game, played on the edge set of a d-regular graph. Maker's aim in this game is to build a large connected component, while Breaker's aim is to not let him do so. For all values of Breaker's bias b,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-03 Rani Hod , Alon Naor

We study the Maker-Maker version of the domination game introduced in 2018 by Duch\^ene et al. Given a graph, two players alternately claim vertices. The first player to claim a dominating set of the graph wins. As the Maker-Breaker…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Eric Duchêne , Arthur Dumas , Nacim Oijid , Aline Parreau , Eric Rémila

Since its introduction as a Maker-Breaker positional game by Duch\^ene et al. in 2020, the Maker-Breaker domination game has become one of the most studied positional games on vertices. In this game, two players, Dominator and Staller,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Guillaume Bagan , Mathieu Hilaire , Nacim Oijid , Aline Parreau

In this paper, we construct two hypergraphs which exhibit the following properties. We first construct a hypergraph $G_{CP}$ and show that Breaker wins the Maker-Breaker game on $G_{CP}$, but Chooser wins the Chooser-Picker game on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-17 Fiachra Knox

In the Maker-Breaker domination game, Dominator and Staller play on a graph $G$ by taking turns in which each player selects a not yet played vertex of $G$. Dominator's goal is to select all the vertices in a dominating set, while Staller…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Athira Divakaran , Tijo James , Sandi Klavžar , Latha S Nair

We introduce a new two-player game on graphs, in which players alternate choosing vertices until the set of chosen vertices forms a dominating set. The last player to choose a vertex is the winner. The game fits into the scheme of several…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Sean Fiscus , Glenn Hurlbert , Eric Myzelev , Travis Pence

We introduce a new positional game called `Toucher-Isolator', which is a quantitative version of a Maker-Breaker type game. The playing board is the set of edges of a given graph G, and the two players, Toucher and Isolator, claim edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-28 Chris Dowden , Mihyun Kang , Mirjana Mikalački , Miloš Stojaković

In a biased weak $(a,b)$ polyform achievement game, the maker and the breaker alternately mark $a,b$ previously unmarked cells on an infinite board, respectively. The maker's goal is to mark a set of cells congruent to a polyform. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-12 Ian Norris , Nandor Sieben

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

At some places (see the references) Martin Erickson describes a certain game: "Two players alternately write O's (first player) and X's (second player) in the unoccupied cells of an n x n grid. The first player (if any) to occupy four cells…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-05-22 Thomas Jenrich

We present a general approach connecting biased Maker-Breaker games and problems about local resilience in random graphs. We utilize this approach to prove new results and also to derive some known results about biased Maker-Breaker games.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Asaf Ferber , Michael Krivelevich , Humberto Naves

We study the $(a:b)$ Maker-Breaker subgraph game played on the edges of the complete graph $K_n$ on $n$ vertices, $n,a,b \in \mathbb{N}$ where the goal of Maker is to build a copy of a specific fixed subgraph $H$. In our work this is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Adnane Fouadi , Mourad El Ouali , Anand Srivastav

We propose a generalization of positional games, supplementing them with a restriction on the order in which the elements of the board are allowed to be claimed. We introduce poset positional games, which are positional games with an…

In this paper we consider positional games where the winning sets are tree universal graphs. Specifically, we show that in the unbiased Maker-Breaker game on the complete graph $K_n$, Maker has a strategy to occupy a graph which contains…

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 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 consider some Maker-Breaker games of the following flavor. We have some set $V$ of items for purchase. Maker's goal is to purchase some member of a given family $\cH$ of subsets of $V$ as cheaply as possible and Breaker's goal is to make…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Patrick Bennett , Alan Frieze

We show that there is an $m=2n+o(n)$, such that, in the Maker-Breaker game played on $\Z^d$ where Maker needs to put at least $m$ of his marks consecutively in one of $n$ given winning directions, Breaker can force a draw using a pairing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-06-01 Padmini Mukkamala , Dömötör Pálvölgyi
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