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OBM 2014 Problem 3

    Let NN be an integer, N>2N>2 . Arnold and Bernold play the following game: there are initially NN tokens on a pile. Arnold plays first and removes kk tokens from the pile, 1≤k<N1\le k < N . Then Bernold removes mm tokens from the pile, 1≤m≤2k1\le m\le 2k and so on, that is, each player, on its turn, removes a number of tokens from the pile that is between 11 and twice the number of tokens his opponent took last. The player that removes the last token wins.

    For each value of NN , find which player has a winning strategy and describe it.

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