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TR-MO 2018 Problem 6

    Initially, there are 2018 distinct boxes on a table. In the first stage, Yazan and Bozan, starting with Yazan, take turns make 20162016 moves each, such that, in each move, the person whose turn selects a pair of boxes that is not written on the board, and writes the pair on the board.

    In the second stage, Bozan enumerates the 40324032 pairs with numbers from 1,2,…,40321,2,\dots,4032 , in whichever order he wants, and puts kk balls in each boxes written contained in the kthk^{th} pair. Is there a strategy for Bozan that guarantees that the number of balls in each box are distinct?

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