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JBMO-SL 2018 C3

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The cells of a 8×88 \times 8 table are initially white. Alice and Bob play a game. First Alice paints nn of the fields in red. Then Bob chooses 4 rows and 4 columns from the table and paints all fields in them in black. Alice wins if there is at least one red field left. Find the least value of nn such that Alice can win the game no matter how Bob plays.

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