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Putnam 1993 B2

  • Session B

Consider the following game played with a deck of 2n2n cards numbered from 1 to 2n2n. The deck is randomly shuffled and nn cards are dealt to each of two players. Beginning with AA, 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 2n+12n+1. The last person to discard wins the game. Assuming optimal strategy by both AA and BB, what is the probability that AA wins?

Curated text Kedlaya Putnam archive. Quoted with source.

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