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$2$-for-$2$ asymmetric Hex

This is a crosspost from Math stackexchange as I left the question open a while and bountied it but received no answers. If the game of Hex is played on an asymmetric board (where the hexes are ...
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Name of a game : Remove two chips from a vertex or one chip from both ends of an edge

Consider a finite graph $\Gamma$ with a positive number $n_v\geq 0$ of chips stacked at each vertex $v$ of $\Gamma$. Two players play in turn with moves consisting either of removing two chips from a ...
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Who wins this two player game of making squares?

Two players take turns coloring edges on an $n$-by-$n$ grid. Both players use the same color. Every time a player surrounds a square of the grid, they mark that square with their name and go again. ...
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Irreversible chess

Suppose we play a chess-variant, where any finite number of pieces are allowed, and the board is as large as we wish, but only two kings in total. And there is no 50 move-rule, no castling and no ...
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Who wins the Rubik's cube game?

This game has two players, Spoiler and Solver. We start with a solved 3x3x3 rubik's cube (to make the problem easier). Solver and Spoiler take turns making 90 degree twists (starting with Solver). ...
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Combinatorial fairness property in division of goods

Given $n$ agents, and $m$ items where $v_i(g) \geq 0$ is the value of item $g$ for agent $i$, does there always exist a partition $A_1, ..., A_n$ of the $m$ items into $n$ sets s.t. for all $i, j \in \...