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Another game of nim (Posted on 2004-09-02) Difficulty: 2 of 5
A game of nim is played with one pile of 30 tokens. The two player takes turns taking tokens off the pile. Whoever takes the last token wins.

To make the game a little more interesting, the rules have been changes slightly:
A player may take 1, 3, 4, or 5 tokens but not 2.

What is the best starting move and what is the general strategy?

See The Solution Submitted by Brian Smith    
Rating: 3.0000 (2 votes)

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re: Solution | Comment 3 of 11 |
(In reply to Solution by Rajal)


For some reason I thought we started with 25. It works with 30 as well as long as you know that 26 is a bad number. (Starting with 30, take 4 chips).
  Posted by Rajal on 2004-09-02 16:16:16

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