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Uniform strategy on Kastanas' game
I think my question applies to most games, but for the sake of concreteness, I shall consider one specific game in this question. We consider the game posed by Ilias Kastanas in his paper On the ...
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Set theory / Formal logic of Baba is You
''Baba is You'' is a recent puzzle game in which the player builds a set of rules by pushing squares with words written on them. If we leave aside the combinatorial difficulty of how to move the ...
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Are Conway's combinatorial games the "monster model" of any familiar theory?
This is related to this question about a "mother of all" groups, and so seemed like it'd fit in better at MO than MSE.
If I understand the answer to that question correctly, the surreal numbers have ...
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What ordinal corresponds to the T(3)?
Let's play a game. You start with the ordinal $\alpha$ and I start with the empty sequence. Each turn, you decrease your ordinal, and I add a tree (where each node can have one of three labels), ...
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Sets as Combinatorial Games
Just a few days ago my seemingly eternal and recurrent fascination for Conway's combinatorial game theory (CGT) & surreal numbers had a recrudescence, so I grabbed this excellent survey, and began ...