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We study the $(p,q)$-Maker Breaker Crossing game introduced by Day and Falgas Ravry in 'Maker-Breaker percolation games I: crossing grids'. The game described in their paper involves two players Maker and Breaker who take turns claiming p…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-07 Freddie Wallwork

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 the total domination game played on a graph $G$, players Dominator and Staller alternately select vertices of $G$, as long as possible, such that each vertex chosen increases the number of vertices totally dominated. Dominator (Staller)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Michael A. Henning , Sandi Klavžar , Douglas F. Rall

The numbers game is a one-player game played on a finite simple graph with certain "amplitudes" assigned to its edges and with an initial assignment of real numbers to its nodes. The moves of the game successively transform the numbers at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-10-31 Robert G. Donnelly

The \emph{slow-coloring game} is played by Lister and Painter on a graph $G$. Initially, all vertices of $G$ are uncolored. In each round, Lister marks a nonempty set $M$ of uncolored vertices, and Painter colors a subset of $M$ that is…

Reachability games are two-player games played on a graph, where the objective of $\texttt{REACH}$ player is to reach the target set whereas the objective of $\texttt{SAFE}$ player is to stay away from the target set. Reachability games…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady , Mehrdad Karrabi , Maximilian Seeliger , Đorđe Žikelić

In the $\left(1:b\right)$ component game played on a graph $G$, two players, Maker and Breaker, alternately claim~$1$ and~$b$ previously unclaimed edges of $G$, respectively. Maker's aim is to maximise the size of a largest connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Rani Hod , Michael Krivelevich , Tobias Müller , Alon Naor , Nicholas Wormald

Recently the matcher game was introduced. In this game, two players create a maximal matching by one player repeatedly choosing a vertex and the other player choosing a $K_2$ containing that vertex. One player tries to minimize the result…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Anna Bachstein , Wayne Goddard , Connor Lehmacher

This paper introduced a pursuit and evasion game to be played on a connected graph. One player moves invisibly around the graph, and the other player must guess his position. At each time step the second player guesses a vertex, winning if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-24 John Haslegrave

Motivated by problems in percolation theory, we study the following 2-player positional game. Let $\Lambda_{m \times n}$ be a rectangular grid-graph with $m$ vertices in each row and $n$ vertices in each column. Two players, Maker and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-03 A. Nicholas Day , Victor Falgas-Ravry

We study a recently introduced class of strategic games that is motivated by and generalizes Schelling's well-known residential segregation model. These games are played on undirected graphs, with the set of agents partitioned into multiple…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Aishwarya Agarwal , Edith Elkind , Jiarui Gan , Alexandros A. Voudouris

We consider zero-sum games in which players move between adjacent states, where in each pair of adjacent states one state dominates the other. The states in our game can represent positional advantages in physical conflict such as high…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Farid Arthaud , Edan Orzech , Martin Rinard

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in games on graphs within the research community, fueled by their relevance in applications such as economics, politics, and epidemiology. This paper aims to comprehensively detail the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Christian Giannetti

This paper investigates a reach-avoid game between two players with damped double integrator dynamics. An optimal state-feedback strategy is derived using a differential game framework combined with geometric analysis. To facilitate the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Mengxin Lyu , Ruiliang Deng , Zongying Shi , Yisheng Zhong

We study the m-Eternal Domination problem, which is the following two-player game between a defender and an attacker on a graph: initially, the defender positions k guards on vertices of the graph; the game then proceeds in turns between…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tiziana Calamoneri , Federico Corò , Neeldhara Misra , Saraswati G. Nanoti , Giacomo Paesani

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

In this paper we study the (a : b) Maker-Breaker Connectivity game, played on the edge-set of the complete graph on n vertices. We determine the winner for almost all values of a and b.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-14 Dan Hefetz , Mirjana Rakić , Miloš Stojaković

In this paper, we continue the study of the total domination game in graphs introduced in [Graphs Combin. 31(5) (2015), 1453--1462], where the players Dominator and Staller alternately select vertices of $G$. Each vertex chosen must…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-10 Michael A. Henning , Douglas F. Rall

The triangle game introduced by Chv\'{a}tal and Erd\H{o}s (1978) is one of the most famous combinatorial games. For $n,q\in\mathbb{N}$, the $(n,q)$-triangle game is played by two players, called Maker and Breaker, on the complete graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Christian Glazik , Anand Srivastav

Given a c-colored graph G, a vertex of G is happy if it has the same color as all its neighbors. The notion of happy vertices was introduced by Zhang and Li to compute the homophily of a graph. Eto, et al. introduced the Maker-Maker version…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Mathieu Hilaire , Perig Montfort , Nacim Oijid
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