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Starting with a graph, two players take turns in either deleting an edge or deleting a vertex and all incident edges. The player removing the last vertex wins. We review the known results for this game and extend the computation of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Cormac O'Sullivan

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

The graph grabbing game is played on a non-negatively weighted connected graph by Alice and Bob who alternately claim a non-cut vertex from the remaining graph, where Alice plays first, to maximize the weights on their respective claimed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-24 Sopon Boriboon , Teeradej Kittipassorn

The restricted $(m,n;N)$-online Ramsey game is a game played between two players, Builder and Painter. The game starts with $N$ isolated vertices. Each turn Builder picks an edge to build and Painter chooses whether that edge is red or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-10 David Gonzalez , Xiaoyu He , Hanzhi Zheng

Consider a vertex colouring game played on a simple graph with $k$ permissible colours. Two players, a maker and a breaker, take turns to colour an uncoloured vertex such that adjacent vertices receive different colours. The game ends once…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Dominique Andres , Edwin Lock

For a finite set $X$, a family of sets ${\mathcal F} \subseteq 2^X$ and a positive integer $q$, we consider two types of two player, perfect information games with no chance moves. In each round of the $(1 : q)$ Waiter-Client game $(X,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Dan Hefetz , Michael Krivelevich , Wei En Tan

Motivated by the investigation of sharpness of thresholds for Ramsey properties in random graphs, Friedgut, Kohayakawa, R\"odl, Ruci\'nski and Tetali introduced two variants of a single-player game whose goal is to colour the edges of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Yahav Alon , Patrick Morris , Wojciech Samotij

Graph burning is a discrete-time process that models the spread of influence in a network. Vertices are either burning or unburned, and in each round, a burning vertex causes all of its neighbours to become burning before a new fire source…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Karen Gunderson , William Kellough , JD Nir , Hritik Punj

We study the following combinatorial game played by two players, Alice and Bob, which generalizes the Pizza game considered by Brown, Winkler and others. Given a connected graph G with nonnegative weights assigned to its vertices, the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-08-07 Josef Cibulka , Jan Kynčl , Viola Mészáros , Rudolf Stolař , Pavel Valtr

Motivated by the controller placement problems in software-defined networks and the fair division principles of classical "cake cutting", we investigate the following two-player zero-sum game. In our model, a defender places a limited…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Grzegorz Gutowski , Konstanty Junosza-Szaniawski , Antonio Lauerbach , Alexander Wolff

We consider a cops and robber game where the cops are blocking edges of a graph, while the robber occupies its vertices. At each round of the game, the cops choose some set of edges to block and right after the robber is obliged to move to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Stratis Limnios , Christophe Paul , Joanny Perret , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

We study a two-player game played on undirected graphs called {\sc Trail Trap}, which is a variant of a game known as {\sc Partizan Edge Geography}. One player starts by choosing any edge and moving a token from one endpoint to the other;…

We present constructions regarding the general behaviour of biased positional games, and amongst others show that the outcome of such a game can differ in an arbitrary way depending on which player starts the game, and that fair biased…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Ali Deniz Bagdas , Dennis Clemens , Fabian Hamann , Yannick Mogge

Consider the following Maker-Breaker type game played by Toucher and Isolator on the edges of a graph $G$ with first move given to Toucher. The aim of Isolator is to maximise the number of vertices which are not incident to any edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Eero Raty

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

Generalized Tur\'an problems investigate the maximization of the number of certain structures (typically edges) under some constraints in a graph. We study a game version of these problems, the Constructor-Blocker game. We mainly focus on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Chloé Boisson , Yannick Mogge , Aline Parreau , Théo Pierron

We construct a Parrondo's game using discrete time quantum walks. Two lossing games are represented by two different coin operators. By mixing the two coin operators $U_{A}(\alpha_{A},\beta_{A},\gamma_{A})$ and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-28 Min Li , Yong-Sheng Zhang , Guang-Can Guo

We study a patrolling game played on a network $Q$, considered as a metric space. The Attacker chooses a point of $Q$ (not necessarily a node) to attack during a chosen time interval of fixed duration. The Patroller chooses a unit speed…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Steve Alpern , Thuy Bui , Thomas Lidbetter , Katerina Papadaki

The online ordered Ramsey game is played between two players, Builder and Painter, on an infinite sequence of vertices with ordered graphs $(G_1,G_2)$, which have linear orderings on their vertices. On each turn, Builder first selects an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Emily Heath , Dylan King , Grace McCourt , Hannah Sheats , Justin Wisby

Connect Four is a two-player game where each player attempts to be the first to create a sequence of four of their pieces, arranged horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, by dropping pieces into the columns of a grid of width seven and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Robert Steele , Daniel B. Larremore
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