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We introduce a model of a controlled random graph process. In this model, the edges of the complete graph $K_n$ are ordered randomly and then revealed, one by one, to a player called Builder. He must decide, immediately and irrevocably,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Alan Frieze , Michael Krivelevich , Peleg Michaeli

In this short note we consider a variation of the connectivity Waiter-Client game $WC(n,q,\mathcal{A})$ played on an $n$-vertex graph $G$ which consists of $q+1$ disjoint spanning trees. In this game in each round Waiter offers Client $q+1$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-21 Sylwia Antoniuk , Codruut Grosu , Lothar Narins

A set of vertices $W$ of a graph $G$ is a resolving set if every vertex of $G$ is uniquely determined by its vector of distances to $W$. In this paper, the Maker-Breaker resolving game is introduced. The game is played on a graph $G$ by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-28 Cong X. Kang , Sandi Klavžar , Ismael G. Yero , Eunjeong Yi

In the $(a,b)$-biased Maker-Breaker domination game, two players alternately select unplayed vertices in a graph $G$ such that Dominator selects $a$ and Staller selects $b$ vertices per move. Dominator wins if the vertices he selected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Boštjan Brešar , Csilla Bujtás , Pakanun Dokyeesun , Tanja Dravec

We investigate Maker-Breaker games on graphs of size $\aleph_1$ in which Maker's goal is to build a copy of the host graph. We establish a firm dependence of the outcome of the game on the axiomatic framework. Relating to this, we prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Nathan Bowler , Florian Gut , Attila Joó , Max Pitz

In the Maker-Breaker resolving game, two players named Resolver and Spoiler alternately select unplayed vertices of a given graph $G$. The aim of Resolver is to select all the vertices of some resolving set of $G$, while Spoiler aims to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Savitha K S , Sandi Klavžar , Tijo James

Maker-Breaker total domination game in graphs is introduced as a natural counterpart to the Maker-Breaker domination game recently studied by Duch\^ene, Gledel, Parreau, and Renault. Both games are instances of the combinatorial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-04 Valentin Gledel , Michael A. Henning , Vesna Iršič , Sandi Klavžar

The Maker-Breaker domination game is a positional game played on a graph by two players called Dominator and Staller. The players alternately select a vertex of the graph that has not yet been chosen. Dominator wins if at some point the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Guillaume Bagan , Eric Duchêne , Valentin Gledel , Tuomo Lehtilä , Aline Parreau

Waiter-Client games are played on some hypergraph $(X,\mathcal{F})$, where $\mathcal{F}$ denotes the family of winning sets. For some bias $b$, during each round of such a game Waiter offers to Client $b+1$ elements of $X$, of which Client…

The semi-random graph process is a single player game in which the player is initially presented an empty graph on $n$ vertices. In each round, a vertex $u$ is presented to the player independently and uniformly at random. The player then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Pu Gao , Bogumil Kaminski , Calum MacRury , Pawel Pralat

In a Maker-Breaker game there are two players, Maker and Breaker, where Maker wins if they create a specified structure while Breaker wins if they prevent Maker from winning indefinitely. A $3$-term arithmetic progression, or $3$-AP, is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Albert Cao , Felix Christian Clemen , Sean English , Xiaojian Li , Tatum Schmidt , Leeann Xoubi , Weian Yin

Two new versions of the so-called Maker-Breaker Positional Games are defined by J\'ozsef Beck in [{\em Combinatorica} {\bf 22}(2) (2002) 169--216]. He defines two players, Picker and Chooser. In each round, Picker takes a pair of elements…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-19 András Csernenszky , Ryan R. Martin , András Pluhár

Let $\Lambda$ be an infinite connected graph, and let $v_0$ be a vertex of $\Lambda$. We consider the following positional game. Two players, Maker and Breaker, play in alternating turns. Initially all edges of $\Lambda$ are marked as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-29 A. Nicholas Day , Victor Falgas-Ravry

We introduce and study two Maker-Breaker-like games for constructing planar graphs: the edge drawing game, where two players take turns drawing non-intersecting edges between points in the plane, and the circle packing game, where the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Wesley Pegden , Eric Wang

We introduce the Maker-Breaker domination game, a two player game on a graph. At his turn, the first player, Dominator, select a vertex in order to dominate the graph while the other player, Staller, forbids a vertex to Dominator in order…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Eric Duchêne , Valentin Gledel , Aline Parreau , Gabriel Renault

We prove that for each $D\ge 2$ there exists $c>0$ such that whenever $b\le c\big(\tfrac{n}{\log n}\big)^{1/D}$, in the $(1:b)$ Maker-Breaker game played on $E(K_n)$, Maker has a strategy to guarantee claiming a graph $G$ containing copies…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Peter Allen , Julia Böttcher , Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Humberto Naves , Yury Person

Positional games have been introduced by Hales and Jewett in 1963 and have been extensively investigated in the literature since then. These games are played on a hypergraph where two players alternately select an unclaimed vertex of it. In…

We introduce and study a Maker-Breaker type game in which the issue is to create or avoid two disjoint dominating sets in graphs without isolated vertices. We prove that the maker has a winning strategy on all connected graphs if the game…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-20 Csilla Bujtás , Zsolt Tuza

The Maker-Breaker resolving game is a game played on a graph $G$ by Resolver and Spoiler. The players taking turns alternately in which each player selects a not yet played vertex of $G$. The goal of Resolver is to select all the vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Tijo James , Sandi Klavžar , Dorota Kuziak , Savitha K S , Ambat Vijayakumar

We consider the following budget-constrained random graph process introduced by Frieze, Krivelevich and Michaeli. A player, called Builder, is presented with $t$ distinct edges of $K_n$ one by one, chosen uniformly at random. Builder may…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Alberto Espuny Díaz , Frederik Garbe , Tássio Naia , Zak Smith