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Partition games

Eric Duchene
Urban Larsson
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Gabrielle Paris
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We introduce CUT, the class of 2-player partition games. These are NIM type games, played on a finite number of heaps of beans. The rules are given by a set of positive integers, which specifies the number of allowed splits a player can perform on a single heap. In normal play, the player with the last move wins, and the famous Sprague-Grundy theory provides a solution. We prove that several rulesets have a periodic or an arithmetic periodic Sprague-Grundy sequence (i.e. they can be partitioned into a finite number of arithmetic progressions of the same common difference). This is achieved directly for some infinite classes of games, and moreover we develop a computational testing condition, demonstrated to solve a variety of additional games. Similar results have previously appeared for various classes of games of take-and-break, for example octal and hexadecimal; see e.g. Winning Ways by Berlekamp, Conway and Guy (1982). In this context, our contribution consists of a systematic study of the subclass `break-without-take'.
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hal-01723190 , version 1 (05-03-2018)
hal-01723190 , version 2 (23-10-2019)
hal-01723190 , version 3 (06-05-2020)

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Antoine Dailly, Eric Duchene, Urban Larsson, Gabrielle Paris. Partition games. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2020, 285, pp.509-525. ⟨10.1016/j.dam.2020.05.032⟩. ⟨hal-01723190v3⟩
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