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William Elliot  
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 More options Nov 7 2009, 1:03 pm
Newsgroups: sci.math
From: William Elliot <ma...@rdrop.remove.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:03:19 -0800
Local: Sat, Nov 7 2009 1:03 pm
Subject: Re: Game with coins

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, jane wrote:
> There are 10 piles of coins (possibly with different amount of coins).
> Each of the two players can take arbitrary number of coins either from
> the leftmost or from the rightmost pile of coins. The one who cannot
> make a move loses. Is there a winning strategy for some of the player in
> this game?

Likely as it appears to be a variant of Nim, which does have such.

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