ABSTRACT

Poker-Nim is a game played with heaps of Poker-chips. Just as in ordinary Nim, either player may reduce the size of any heap by removing some of the chips. A player is allowed an alternative move of increasing the size of some heap by adding to it some of the chips he acquired in earlier moves. Whenever the other player enlarges some gap by retreating, the first player should reduce it again by the same extent. In fact the winner should always advance on his opponent, never retreat. In the game of Wyt Queens any number of Queens can be on the same square and each player, when it is her turn to move, can move any single Queen an arbitrary distance North, West or North-West as indicated, even jumping over other Queens. Because the Queens move independently, we can regard the whole game as the sum of smaller ones with just one Queen.