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Winning strategy

For SIM, there are several winning strategies for the second player. However, they are all quite complicated. You may consult the following papers if you are interested in them.

Reference

  1. M. Garden, Mathematical Games, Scientific American, February (1973), pp. p.108-112.

  2. E. Mead, A Rose, C, Huang, The game of SIM: a winning strategy for the second player, Mathematical Report No. 58, March 1973, McMaster University.

  3. L.E.Shader, Another strategy for SIM, Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 51. No. 1 , p.60-62, 1978.

Department of Mathematics, HKU, 2010