Putnam 1993 B2
- Session B
Consider the following game played with a deck of cards numbered from 1 to . The deck is randomly shuffled and cards are dealt to each of two players. Beginning with , the players take turns discarding one of their remaining cards and announcing its number. The game ends as soon as the sum of the numbers on the discarded cards is divisible by . The last person to discard wins the game. Assuming optimal strategy by both and , what is the probability that wins?
Curated text Kedlaya Putnam archive. Quoted with source.
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