Game of Nim: Difference between revisions

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More general versions of the game exist with different numbers and sizes of rows (or piles, as the case may be), and Reverse Nim is essentially the same game played to lose - and the solution is similar. In all cases, one side has a winning strategy that cannot be beaten if the player follows it carefully. This makes it very easy to implement in a computer game - the human player has the advantage and can win if he does the right thing, but a single slip-up and the computer will win instead.

 

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* ''[[The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary]]'' had DiscAppear, which is a Nim variant played with compact discs [[Stylistic Suck|with titles like "The Boston Pops Play the Beach Boys"]]. It's implied that whoever gets stuck with the last disc [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|has to listen to it]], but fortunately the ''player'' is spared such a fate.

* In the ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' Dream World, you can play a similar game against ghost-type Pokemon, where the players take turns blowing out candles. Some candles, however, give you extra points, while others subtract them, and later ones take two turns to extinguish.

* In ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan'' for the Nintendo Game Boy, there is a bonus stage where you play a similar game against Krang by removing shurikens until there are none left, with the winner being the one who removes the last shuriken.

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