Tag: games

Interview Questions

• Twenty coins in a circle
• Should you draw first or second?
• Guess each other's coin
• Why the first player wins at Hex
• Placing knights so that none attack
• Nim where the last stone loses
• One game or best of three against a stronger player?
• Racing a rook to the corner
• A row of ten counters
• Writing digits to reach a multiple of nine
• Strike a number and all its divisors
• Subtract a square
• Take one, two or four stones
• Take one, three or four
• Can the first player force a win at tic-tac-toe?
• Two piles, take from one or equally from both