OBM 2014 Problem 3
Let be an integer, . Arnold and Bernold play the following game: there are initially tokens on a pile. Arnold plays first and removes tokens from the pile, . Then Bernold removes tokens from the pile, and so on, that is, each player, on its turn, removes a number of tokens from the pile that is between and twice the number of tokens his opponent took last. The player that removes the last token wins.
For each value of , find which player has a winning strategy and describe it.
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