nim

• Jeu de mathématiques et de stratégie dans lequel des allumettes sont disposées en rangées et les joueurs retirent à tour de rôle une ou plusieurs allumettes; selon les variantes, l'objectif est de prendre la dernière allumette restante ou, au contraire, d'éviter de la prendre.

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.

   jeu de 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.