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ISL 2021 C6

    A hunter and an invisible rabbit play a game on an infinite square grid. First the hunter fixes a colouring of the cells with finitely many colours. The rabbit then secretly chooses a cell to start in. Every minute, the rabbit reports the colour of its current cell to the hunter, and then secretly moves to an adjacent cell that it has not visited before (two cells are adjacent if they share a side). The hunter wins if after some finite time either - the rabbit cannot move; or - the hunter can determine the cell in which the rabbit started. Decide whether there exists a winning strategy for the hunter.

    Dataset text NuminaMath olympiads. Quoted with source.

    Official text: IMO 2021 Shortlist booklet, page 6.

    Solutions

    Official solution Solution 1 by the IMO Problem Selection Committee

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