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Cyclic impartial games with carry-on moves
Tomoaki Abuku, Alda Carvalho, Urban Larsson +3
In an impartial combinatorial game, both players have the same options in the game and all its subpositions. The classical Sprague-Grundy Theory was developed for short impartial g…
Misère Cricket Pitch
Richard J. Nowakowski, Ethan J. Saunders
Misère games in general have little algebraic structure, but if the games under consideration have properties then some algebraic structure re-appears. In 2023, the class of Blocki…
Simple Chopsticks: Playing with any number of hands and fingers
Antoine Dailly, Valentin Gledel, Richard J. Nowakowski +1
Chopsticks is a game played by two players where they start with one finger raised on each hand. On their turn, each player moves by pointing an attacking hand at one of their oppo…
Affine Normal Play
Urban Larsson, Richard J. Nowakowski, Carlos P. Santos
There are many combinatorial games in which a move can terminate the game, such as a checkmate in chess. These moves give rise to diverse situations that fall outside the scope of…
A complete solution for the partisan chocolate game
Tomoaki Abuku, Hikaru Manabe, Richard J. Nowakowski +2
The class of Poset Take-Away games includes many interesting and difficult games. Playing on an -dimensional positive quadrant (the origin being the bottom of the poset) gives r…
Indecomposable combinatorial games
Michael Fisher, Neil A. McKay, Rebecca Milley +2
In Combinatorial Game Theory, short game forms are defined recursively over all the positions the two players are allowed to move to. A form is decomposable if it can be expressed…