nim

• Ein mathematisches Strategiespiel, bei dem Gegenstände wie Streichhölzer in Reihen liegen und die Spieler abwechselnd eine beliebige Anzahl aus einer Reihe nehmen; je nach Variante gewinnt, wer das letzte Objekt nimmt, oder wer es vermeidet.

A game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining matchstick on the table.

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1. Strategy gameC1formal

   A mathematical game in which players take turns removing objects from distinct piles; the player who takes the last object wins or loses depending on the variant.

   Nim

   • They played a round of nim using matchsticks.
   • Nim is often used to teach combinatorial game theory.
   • The computer program was designed to play nim perfectly.