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Nim
by Bartl, XVIe, Carstens-Holzspielzeug
Player Count
2
Categories
  • Abstract Strategy
  • Designers
  • (Uncredited)
  • Family
  • Combinatorial
  • Player Count: Two Player Only Games
  • Rating: 3.84/10 from 54 users

    Description

    Generally, the game of Nim is a two-player game of perfect information in which there are some number of rows or "heaps" of objects, and a legal move consists of removing any number of objects from a single heap. (For a non-trivial game, we should start with at least three heaps.) In "standard play", the player who cannot make a move on his turn (because no objects remain) is the loser. A very general and far-reaching theory of such games is developed in Berlekamp, Conway, and Guy's Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays.

    In the commercial version pictured, the players take turns removing 1, 2, 3, or 4 pegs together in a row. It would appear from the picture that "rows" can run in any direction, which means that the "heaps" intersect. This is not what most people know as Nim. Also, according to the original description, in this version the loser is the player who has to remove the last peg. This is so-called "misere play", rather than the standard winning condition. Many combinatorial games allow misère play as a variation.

    Nim is solved, which means that from any initial configuration, one can readily determine whether the next player or the previous player has a winning strategy, and identify a good next move in the former case. For Nim, this can be determined surprisingly readily no matter the size of the heaps, but you're not going to get the secret from me.

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