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arxiv: 1508.05777 · v1 · pith:JFWNFTFHnew · submitted 2015-08-24 · 🧮 math.CO

Slow k-Nim

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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 at most (resp. exactly) $k$ non-empty piles and removes one token from each of these piles. For the normal and mis\`ere version of each game we compute the Sprague-Grundy function for the cases $n = k = 2$ and $n = k+1 = 3$. For game Nim$^1_{n, \leq k}$ we also characterize its P-positions for the cases $n \leq k+2$ and $n = k+3 \leq 6$.

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