The hexad game

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Authors Joseph Kahane, Alex Ryba

Publication date 16 October 2001

Published in The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/121883, http://www.emis.de/journals/EJC/Volume_8/Abstracts/v8i2r11.html

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zbMATH Keywords

hexad gamenim sumsregularitiesSteiner system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Games in extensive form (91A18)

Review text

Summary: We give a non-enumerative proof that the \(P\)-positions of the hexad game give the Steiner system \(S(5,6,12)\). We show that the distributions of Nim sums and Welter values of these \(P\)-positions have simple and surprising regularities.

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