2 papers
math.CO2026
Floridian Solitaire: A New Variant of Bulgarian Solitaire
Aaron Meyerowitz, Stephen J. Curran, Stephen C. Locke +1
Bulgarian solitaire is a well-studied, no-choice, no-loss, one-player game involving stacks of cards. More formally, it is a self-map on the set of partitions of a fixed integer $n…
math.CO2026
Two-pile and three-pile games of a new variant of Nim known as Halve Nim
Stephen C. Locke, Stephen J. Curran, Richard M. Low
We investigate a variant of Nim called Halve Nim, which in addition to the standard moves of Nim, we allow replacing each pile of coins with half its amount. We determine the P-pos…