Chip and Dale play the following game. Chip starts by splitting $222$ nuts between two piles, so Dale can see it. In response, Dale chooses some number $N$ from $1$ to $222$. Then Chip moves nuts from the piles he prepared to a new (third) pile until there will be exactly $N$ nuts in any one or two piles. When Chip accomplishes his task, Dale gets an exact amount of nuts that Chip moved. What is the maximal number of nuts that Dale can get for sure, no matter how Chip acts? (Naturally, Dale wants to get as many nuts as possible, while Chip wants to lose as little as possible).

Let $n$ be a positive integer. Ana and Beto play a game on a $2 \times n$ board (with 2 rows and $n$ columns). First, Ana writes a digit from 1 to 9 in each cell of the board such that in each column the two written digits are different. Then, Beto erases a digit from each column. Reading from left to right, a number with $n$ digits is formed. Beto wins if this number is a multiple of $n$; otherwise, Ana wins. Determine which of the two players has a winning strategy in the following cases: $\bullet$ (a) $n = 1001$. $\bullet$ (b) $n = 1003$.

Alice and Bianca have one hundred marbles. At the start of the game they split these hundred marbles into two piles. Thereafter, a move consists of choosing a pile, then choosing a positive integer not larger than half of the number of marbles in that pile, and finally removing that number of marbles from the chosen pile. The first player unable to remove any marbles loses. Alice makes the first move of the game. Determine all initial pile sizes for which Bianca has a winning strategy.

Tao plays the following game:given a constant $v>1$;for any positive integer $m$,the time between the $m^{th}$ round and the $(m+1)^{th}$ round of the game is $2^{-m}$ seconds;Tao chooses a circular safe area whose radius is $2^{-m+1}$ (with the border,and the choosing time won't be calculated) on the plane in the $m^{th}$ round;the chosen circular safe area in each round will keep its center fixed,and its radius will decrease at the speed $v$ in the rest of the time(if the radius decreases to $0$,erase the circular safe area);if it's possible to choose a circular safe area inside the union of the rest safe areas sometime before the $100^{th}$ round(including the $100^{th}$ round),then Tao wins the game.If Tao has a winning strategy,find the minimum value of $\biggl\lfloor\frac{1}{v-1}\biggr\rfloor$.

Given a (simple) graph $G$ with $n \geq 2$ vertices $v_1, v_2, \dots, v_n$ and $m \geq 1$ edges, Joël and Robert play the following game with $m$ coins: [list=i] [*]Joël first assigns to each vertex $v_i$ a non-negative integer $w_i$ such that $w_1+\cdots+w_n=m$. [*]Robert then chooses a (possibly empty) subset of edges, and for each edge chosen he places a coin on exactly one of its two endpoints, and then removes that edge from the graph. When he is done, the amount of coins on each vertex $v_i$ should not be greater than $w_i$. [*]Joël then does the same for all the remaining edges. [*]Joël wins if the number of coins on each vertex $v_i$ is equal to $w_i$. [/list] Determine all graphs $G$ for which Joël has a winning strategy.

Calvin and Hobbes play a game. First, Hobbes picks a family $F$ of subsets of $\{1, 2, . . . , 2020\}$, known to both players. Then, Calvin and Hobbes take turns choosing a number from $\{1, 2, . . . , 2020\}$ which is not already chosen, with Calvin going first, until all numbers are taken (i.e., each player has $1010$ numbers). Calvin wins if he has chosen all the elements of some member of $F$, otherwise Hobbes wins. What is the largest possible size of a family $F$ that Hobbes could pick while still having a winning strategy?

Inside a $2\times 2$ square, lines parallel to a side of the square (both horizontal and vertical) are drawn thereby dividing the square into rectangles. The rectangles are alternately colored black and white like a chessboard. Prove that if the total area of the white rectangles is equal to the total area of the black rectangles, then one can cut out the black rectangles and reassemble them into a $1\times 2$ rectangle.

Two players play the following game: alternatively they write numbers $1$ or $0$ in the vertices of an $n$-gon. First player starts the game and wins if after any of his moves there exists a triangle, whose vertices are three consecutive vertices of the $n$-gon, such that the sum of numbers in it's vertices is divisible by $3$. Second player wins if he prevents this. Determine which player has a winning strategy if: a) $n=2019$ b) $n=2020$ c) $n=2021$

Let $(m,n,N)$ be a triple of positive integers. Bruce and Duncan play a game on an m\times n array, where the entries are all initially zeroes. The game has the following rules. $\bullet$ The players alternate turns, with Bruce going first. $\bullet$ On Bruce's turn, he picks a row and either adds $1$ to all of the entries in the row or subtracts $1$ from all the entries in the row. $\bullet$ On Duncan's turn, he picks a column and either adds $1$ to all of the entries in the column or subtracts $1$ from all of the entries in the column. $\bullet$ Bruce wins if at some point there is an entry $x$ with $|x|\ge N$. Find all triples $(m, n,N)$ such that no matter how Duncan plays, Bruce has a winning strategy.

Alice and Bob play the following game. They alternate selecting distinct nonzero digits (from $1$ to $9$) until they have chosen seven such digits, and then consider the resulting seven-digit number by concatenating the digits in the order selected, with the seventh digit appearing last (i.e. $\overline{A_1B_2A_3B_4A_6B_6A_7}$). Alice wins if and only if the resulting number is the last seven decimal digits of some perfect seventh power. Please determine which player has the winning strategy.

We’re playing a game with a sequence of $2008$ non-negative integers. A move consists of picking a integer $b$ from that sequence, of which the neighbours $a$ and $c$ are positive. We then replace $a, b$ and $c$ by $a - 1, b + 7$ and $c - 1$ respectively. It is not allowed to pick the first or the last integer in the sequence, since they only have one neighbour. If there is no integer left such that both of its neighbours are positive, then there is no move left, and the game ends. Prove that the game always ends, regardless of the sequence of integers we begin with, and regardless of the moves we make.

A table with three rows and 100 columns is given. Initially, in the left cell of each row there are $400\cdot 3^{100}$ chips. At one move, Petya marks some (but at least one) chips on the table, and then Vasya chooses one of the three rows. After that, all marked chips in the selected row are shifted to the right by a cell, and all marked chips in the other rows are removed from the table. Petya wins if one of the chips goes beyond the right edge of the table; Vasya wins if all the chips are removed. Who has a winning strategy? [i]Proposed by P. Svyatokum, A. Khuzieva and D. Shabanov[/i]

$n^2$ real numbers are written in a square $n \times n$ table so that the sum of the numbers in each row and column equals zero. A move is to add a row to one column and subtract it from another (so if the entries are $a_{ij}$ and we select row $i$, column $h$ and column $k$, then column h becomes $a_{1h} + a_{i1}, a_{2h} + a_{i2}, ... , a_{nh} + a_{in}$, column $k$ becomes $a_{1k} - a_{i1}, a_{2k} - a_{i2}, ... , a_{nk} - a_{in}$, and the other entries are unchanged). Show that we can make all the entries zero by a series of moves.

Two players play the following game. The first player starts by writing either $0$ or $1$ and then, on his every move, chooses either $0$ or $1$ and writes it to the right of the existing digits until there are $1999$ digits. Each time the first player puts down a digit (except the first one) , the second player chooses two digits among those already written and swaps them. Can the second player guarantee that after his last move the line of digits will be symmetrical about the middle digit? (I Izmestiev)

There are $100$ glasses, with $101,102,...,200$ cents.Two players play next game. In every move they can take some cents from one glass, but after move should be different number of cents in every glass. Who will win with right strategy?

$ 1994$ girls are seated at a round table. Initially one girl holds $ n$ tokens. Each turn a girl who is holding more than one token passes one token to each of her neighbours. a.) Show that if $ n < 1994$, the game must terminate. b.) Show that if $ n \equal{} 1994$ it cannot terminate.