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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 integer $n$ and $k$ such that $0 < k \leq n$ and $n$ piles of stones, two player alternate turns. By one move it is allowed to choose any $k$ piles and remove exactly one stone from each. The player who has to move but cannot is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-14 V. Gurvich , D. Martynov , V. Maximchuk , M. Vyalyi

Moore's generalization of the game of {\sc Nim} is played as follows. Let $n$ and $k$ be two integers such that $1 \leq k \leq n$. Given $n$ piles of tokens, two players move alternately, removing tokens from at least one and at most $k$ of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Endre Boros , Vladimir Gurvich , Nhan Bao Ho , Kazuhisa Makino , Peter Mursic

We compare to different extensions of the ancient game of nim: Moore's nim$(n, \leq k)$ and exact nim$(n, = k)$. Given integers $n$ and $k$ such that $0 < k \leq n$, we consider $n$ piles of stones. Two players alternate turns. By one move…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Vladimir Gurvich , Artem Parfenov , Michael Vyalyi

Given integer $n$ and $k$ such that $0 < k \leq n$ and $n$ piles of stones, two players alternate turns. By one move it is allowed to choose any $k$ piles and remove exactly one stone from each. The player who has to move but cannot is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Vladimir Gurvich , Vladislav Maximchuk , Georgy Miheenkov , Mariya Naumova

We introduce the game Slow $A$-Nim which generalizes a number of recently studied games. Slow $A$-Nim is played on $n$ stacks of tokens, and the set $A$ indicates the number of stacks a player can play on. Once a player has decided on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Silvia Heubach , Matthieu Dufour

A move in the game of nim consists of taking any positive number of tokens from a single pile. Suppose we add the class of moves of taking a nonnegative number of tokens jointly from all the piles. We give a complete answer to the question…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Uri Blass , Aviezri S. Fraenkel , Romina Guelman

A circular Nim game is a two player impartial combinatorial game consisting of n stacks of tokens placed in a circle. A move consists of choosing k consecutive stacks, and taking at least one token from one or more of the k stacks. The last…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-02 Matthieu Dufour , Silvia Heubach

Circular nim $CN(m, k)$ is a variant of nim, in which there are $m$ piles of tokens arranged in a circle and each player, in their turn, chooses at most $k$ consecutive piles in the circle and removes an arbitrary number of tokens from each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Koki Suetsugu

The 2-player impartial game of Wythoff Nim is played on two piles of tokens. A move consists in removing any number of tokens from precisely one of the piles or the same number of tokens from both piles. The winner is the player who removes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-29 Urban Larsson

The game of Nim, which has been well known for many years, has numerous variations. One such variation is Circular Nim, where piles of stones are arranged on a circumference, and players take stones from consecutive adjacent piles in one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Hiromi Oginuma , Masato Shinoda

Given a hypergraph $\cH \subseteq 2^I \setminus \{\emptyset\}$ on the ground set $I = \{1, \ldots, n\}$, we assign to each $i \in I$ a nonnegative integer $x_i$, that is a pile of $x_i$ tokens, and consider the following generalization of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-02 Endre Boros , Vladimir Gurvich , Nhan Bao Ho , Kazuhisa Makino

The authors present formulas for the previous player's winning positions of two variants of restricted Nim. In both of these two games, there is one pile of stones, and in the first variant, we investigate the case that in k-th turn, you…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Keita Mizugaki , Shoei Takahashi , Hikaru Manabe , Aoi Murakami , Ryohei Miyadera

The classical game of {\sc Nim} can be naturally extended and played on an arbitrary hypergraph $\cH \subseteq 2^V \setminus \{\emptyset\}$ whose vertices $V = \{1, \ldots, n\}$ correspond to piles of stones. By one move a player chooses an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Endre Boros , Vladimir Gurvich , Levi Kitrossky , Kazuhisa Makino

Nim is a well-known combinatorial game in which two players alternately remove stones from distinct piles. A player who removes the last stone wins under the normal play rule, while a player loses under the mis\`ere play rule. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Hiromi Oginuma , Masato Shinoda

The classic game of Nim has been well-known for many years, inspiring numerous variations. One such variant is Delete Nim, where players take turns eliminating one pile of stones and splitting the remaining pile into two smaller piles. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Masato Shinoda

We study a variation of the combinatorial game of 2-pile Nim. Move as in 2-pile Nim but with the following constraint: Suppose the previous player has just removed say $x>0$ tokens from the shorter pile (either pile in case they have the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-06-02 Urban Larsson

Circular Nim is a two-player impartial combinatorial game consisting of $n$ stacks of tokens placed in a circle. A move consists of choosing $k$ consecutive stacks and taking at least one token from one or more of the stacks. The last…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Matthieu Dufour , Silvia Heubach

Wythoff's Nim is a variant of 2-pile Nim in which players are allowed to take any positive number of stones from pile 1, or any positive number of stones from pile 2, or the same positive number from both piles. The player who makes the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-08 Mirabel Hu , Daniel Sleator , William Tsin

We study a variant of 3-pile Nim in which a move consists of taking tokens from one pile and, instead of removing then, topping up on a smaller pile provided that the destination pile does not have more tokens then the source pile after the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-12 Nhan Bao Ho
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