Suppose you have identical coins distributed in several piles with one or more coins in each pile. An action consists of taking two piles, which have an even total of coins among them, and redistribute their coins in two piles so that they end up with the same number of coins. A distribution is [i]levelable[/i] if it is possible, by means of 0 or more operations, to end up with all the piles having the same number of coins. Determine all positive integers $n$ such that, for all positive integers $k$, any distribution of $nk$ coins in $n$ piles is levelable.

Adithya and Bill are playing a game on a connected graph with $n > 2$ vertices, two of which are labeled $A$ and $B$, so that $A$ and $B$ are distinct and non-adjacent and known to both players. Adithya starts on vertex $A$ and Bill starts on $B$. Each turn, both players move simultaneously: Bill moves to an adjacent vertex, while Adithya may either move to an adjacent vertex or stay at his current vertex. Adithya loses if he is on the same vertex as Bill, and wins if he reaches $B$ alone. Adithya cannot see where Bill is, but Bill can see where Adithya is. Given that Adithya has a winning strategy, what is the maximum possible number of edges the graph may have? (Your answer may be in terms of $n$.) [i]Proposed by Steven Liu[/i]

Chip and Dale play on a $100 \times 100$ table. In the beginning, a chess king stands in the upper left corner of the table. At each move the king is moved one square right, down or right-down diagonally. A player cannot move in the direction used by his opponent in the previous move. The players move in turn, Chip begins. The player that cannot move loses. Which player has a winning strategy?

There are 60 empty boxes $B_1,\ldots,B_{60}$ in a row on a table and an unlimited supply of pebbles. Given a positive integer $n$, Alice and Bob play the following game. In the first round, Alice takes $n$ pebbles and distributes them into the 60 boxes as she wishes. Each subsequent round consists of two steps: (a) Bob chooses an integer $k$ with $1\leq k\leq 59$ and splits the boxes into the two groups $B_1,\ldots,B_k$ and $B_{k+1},\ldots,B_{60}$. (b) Alice picks one of these two groups, adds one pebble to each box in that group, and removes one pebble from each box in the other group. Bob wins if, at the end of any round, some box contains no pebbles. Find the smallest $n$ such that Alice can prevent Bob from winning. [i]Czech Republic[/i]

Juty and Azgor plays the following game on a \((2n+1) \times (2n+1)\) board with Juty moving first. Initially all cells are colored white. On Juty's turn, she colors a white cell green and on Azgor's turn, he colors a white cell red. The game ends after they color all the cells of the board. Juty wins if all the green cells are connected, i.e. given any two green cells, there is at least one chain of neighbouring green cells connecting them (we call two cells [i]neighboring[/i] if they share at least one corner), otherwise Azgor wins. Determine which player has a winning strategy. [i]Proposed by Atonu Roy Chowdhury[/i]

Alice and Bob are playing "factoring game." On the paper, $270000(=2^43^35^4)$ is written and each person picks one number from the paper(call it $N$) and erase $N$ and writes integer $X,Y$ such that $N=XY$ and $\text{gcd}(X,Y)\ne1.$ Alice goes first and the person who can no longer make this factoring loses. If two people use optimal strategy, prove that Alice always win.

There are 60 empty boxes $B_1,\ldots,B_{60}$ in a row on a table and an unlimited supply of pebbles. Given a positive integer $n$, Alice and Bob play the following game. In the first round, Alice takes $n$ pebbles and distributes them into the 60 boxes as she wishes. Each subsequent round consists of two steps: (a) Bob chooses an integer $k$ with $1\leq k\leq 59$ and splits the boxes into the two groups $B_1,\ldots,B_k$ and $B_{k+1},\ldots,B_{60}$. (b) Alice picks one of these two groups, adds one pebble to each box in that group, and removes one pebble from each box in the other group. Bob wins if, at the end of any round, some box contains no pebbles. Find the smallest $n$ such that Alice can prevent Bob from winning. [i]Czech Republic[/i]

Pasha and Vova play the following game, making moves in turn; Pasha moves first. Initially, they have a large piece of plasticine. By a move, Pasha cuts one of the existing pieces into three(of arbitrary sizes), and Vova merges two existing pieces into one. Pasha wins if at some point there appear to be $100$ pieces of equal weights. Can Vova prevent Pasha's win?

In a tournament each player played exactly one game against each of the other players. In each game the winner was awarded 1 point, the loser got 0 points, and each of the two players earned 1/2 point if the game was a tie. After the completion of the tournament, it was found that exactly half of the points earned by each player were earned against the ten players with the least number of points. (In particular, each of the ten lowest scoring players earned half of her/his points against the other nine of the ten). What was the total number of players in the tournament?

Yamin and Tamim are playing a game with subsets of $\{1, 2, \ldots, n\}$ where $n \geq 3$. [list] [*] Tamim starts the game with the empty set. [*] On Yamin's turn, he adds a proper non-empty subset of $\{1, 2, \ldots, n\}$ to his collection $F$ of blocked sets. [*] On Tamim's turn, he adds or removes a positive integer less than or equal to $n$ to or from their set but Tamim can never add or remove an element so that his set becomes one of the blocked sets in $F$. [/list] Tamim wins if he can make his set to be $\{1, 2, \ldots, n\}$. Yamin wins if he can stop Tamim from doing so. Yamin goes first and they alternate making their moves. Does Tamim have a winning strategy? [i]Proposed by Ahmed Ittihad Hasib[/i]

Amy and Bob play a game. They alternate turns, with Amy going first. At the start of the game, there are $20$ cookies on a red plate and $14$ on a blue plate. A legal move consists of eating two cookies taken from one plate, or moving one cookie from the red plate to the blue plate (but never from the blue plate to the red plate). The last player to make a legal move wins; in other words, if it is your turn and you cannot make a legal move, you lose, and the other player has won. Which player can guarantee that they win no matter what strategy their opponent chooses? Prove that your answer is correct.

Navi and Ozna are playing a game where Ozna starts first and the two take turn making moves. A positive integer is written on the waord. A move is to (i) subtract any positive integer at most 2015 from it or (ii) given that the integer on the board is divisible by $2014$, divide by $2014$. The first person to make the integer $0$ wins. To make Navi's condition worse, Ozna gets to pick integers $a$ and $b$, $a\ge 2015$ such that all numbers of the form $an+b$ will not be the starting integer, where $n$ is any positive integer. Find the minimum number of starting integer where Navi wins.

Players $A$ and $B$ play a game on a blackboard that initially contains 2020 copies of the number 1 . In every round, player $A$ erases two numbers $x$ and $y$ from the blackboard, and then player $B$ writes one of the numbers $x+y$ and $|x-y|$ on the blackboard. The game terminates as soon as, at the end of some round, one of the following holds: [list] [*] $(1)$ one of the numbers on the blackboard is larger than the sum of all other numbers; [*] $(2)$ there are only zeros on the blackboard. [/list] Player $B$ must then give as many cookies to player $A$ as there are numbers on the blackboard. Player $A$ wants to get as many cookies as possible, whereas player $B$ wants to give as few as possible. Determine the number of cookies that $A$ receives if both players play optimally.

We are placing rooks on a $n \cdot n$ chess table that providing this condition: Every two rooks will threaten an empty square at least. What is the most number of rooks?

Let $n$ be an even positive integer. Alice and Bob play the following game. Before the start of the game, Alice chooses a set $S$ containing $m$ integers and announces it to Bob. The players then alternate turns, with Bob going first, choosing $i\in\{1,2,\dots, n\}$ that has not been chosen and setting the value of $v_i$ to either $0$ or $1$. At the end of the game, when all of $v_1,v_2,\dots,v_n$ have been set, the expression $$E=v_1\cdot 2^0 + v_2 \cdot 2^1 + \dots + v_n \cdot 2^{n-1}$$ is calculated. Determine the minimum $m$ such that Alice can always ensure that $E\in S$ regardless of how Bob plays.

There are $m \ge 2$ blue points and $n \ge 2$ red points in three-dimensional space, and no four points are coplanar. Geoff and Nazar take turns, picking one blue point and one red point and connecting the two with a straight-line segment. Assume that Geoff starts first and the one who first makes a cycle wins. Who has the winning strategy?

Ayala and Barvaz play a game: Ayala initially gives Barvaz two $100\times100$ tables of positive integers, such that the product of numbers in each table is the same. In one move, Barvaz may choose a row or column in one of the tables, and change the numbers in it (to some positive integers), as long as the total product remains the same. Barvaz wins if after $N$ such moves, he manages to make the two tables equal to each other, and otherwise Ayala wins. a. For which values of $N$ does Barvaz have a winning strategy? b. For which values of $N$ does Barvaz have a winning strategy, if all numbers in Ayalah’s tables must be powers of $2$?

Petya and Vasya play the following game. Petya conceives a polynomial $P(x)$ having integer coefficients. On each move, Vasya pays him a ruble, and calls an integer $a$ of his choice, which has not yet been called by him. Petya has to reply with the number of distinct integer solutions of the equation $P(x)=a$. The game continues until Petya is forced to repeat an answer. What minimal amount of rubles must Vasya pay in order to win? [i](Anant Mudgal)[/i] (Translated from [url=http://sasja.shap.homedns.org/Turniry/TG/index.html]here.[/url])

There are 60 empty boxes $B_1,\ldots,B_{60}$ in a row on a table and an unlimited supply of pebbles. Given a positive integer $n$, Alice and Bob play the following game. In the first round, Alice takes $n$ pebbles and distributes them into the 60 boxes as she wishes. Each subsequent round consists of two steps: (a) Bob chooses an integer $k$ with $1\leq k\leq 59$ and splits the boxes into the two groups $B_1,\ldots,B_k$ and $B_{k+1},\ldots,B_{60}$. (b) Alice picks one of these two groups, adds one pebble to each box in that group, and removes one pebble from each box in the other group. Bob wins if, at the end of any round, some box contains no pebbles. Find the smallest $n$ such that Alice can prevent Bob from winning. [i]Czech Republic[/i]

A robot is placed at point $P$ on the $x$-axis but different from $(0,0)$ and $(1,0)$ and can only move along the axis either to the left or to the right. Two players play the following game. Player $A$ gives a distance and $B$ gives a direction and the robot will move the indicated distance along the indicated direction. Player $A$ aims to move the robot to either $(0,0)$ or $(1,0)$. Player $B$'s aim is to stop $A$ from achieving his aim. For which $P$ can $A$ win?

In a heap there are $2021$ stones. Two players $A$ and $B$ play removing stones of the pile, alternately starting with $A$. A valid move for $A$ consists of remove $1, 2$ or $7$ stones. A valid move for B is to remove $1, 3, 4$ or $6$ stones. The player who leaves the pile empty after making a valid move wins. Determine if some of the players have a winning strategy. If such a strategy exists, explain it.

Two players play alternatively on an infinite square grid. The first player puts an $X$ in an empty cell and the second player puts an $O$ in an empty cell. The first player wins if he gets $11$ adjacent $X$'s in a line - horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Show that the second player can always prevent the first player from winning.

You are given a row made by $2018$ squares, numbered consecutively from $0$ to $2017$. Initially, there is a coin in the square $0$. Two players $A$ and $B$ play alternatively, starting with $A$, on the following way: In his turn, each player can either make his coin advance $53$ squares or make the coin go back $2$ squares. On each move the coin can never go to a number less than $0$ or greater than $2017$. The player who puts the coin on the square $2017$ wins. ¿Who is the one with the wining strategy and how should he play to win?

Maker and Breaker are building a wall. Maker has a supply of green cubical building blocks, and Breaker has a supply of red ones, all of the same size. On the ground, a row of $m$ squares has been marked in chalk as place-holders. Maker and Breaker now take turns in placing a block either directly on one of these squares, or on top of another block already in place, in such a way that the height of each column never exceeds $n$. Maker places the first block. Maker bets that he can form a green row, i.e. all $m$ blocks at a certain height are green. Breaker bets that he can prevent Maker from achieving this. Determine all pairs $(m,n)$ of positive integers for which Maker can make sure he wins the bet.

Let $n \ge 3$ be a fixed integer. A game is played by $n$ players sitting in a circle. Initially, each player draws three cards from a shuffled deck of $3n$ cards numbered $1, 2, \dots, 3n$. Then, on each turn, every player simultaneously passes the smallest-numbered card in their hand one place clockwise and the largest-numbered card in their hand one place counterclockwise, while keeping the middle card. Let $T_r$ denote the configuration after $r$ turns (so $T_0$ is the initial configuration). Show that $T_r$ is eventually periodic with period $n$, and find the smallest integer $m$ for which, regardless of the initial configuration, $T_m=T_{m+n}$. [i]Proposed by Carl Schildkraut and Colin Tang[/i]