Putnam 2020 B2
- Session B
Let and be integers with . Alice and Bob play a game with pegs in a line of holes. At the beginning of the game, the pegs occupy the leftmost holes. A legal move consists of moving a single peg to any vacant hole that is further to the right. The players alternate moves, with Alice playing first. The game ends when the pegs are in the rightmost holes, so whoever is next to play cannot move and therefore loses. For what values of and does Alice have a winning strategy?
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