Talk:Puzzles/Two-player games/Picking game

I'm not perfectly sure about the naming. In german it is "Nimmspiel" which I directly translated to picking game. But that is not from a native speaker sboehringer.

In English it's Nim - see Nim. However, this game is a variation of Nim - normally, a player can pick up arbitnary number of matches and there are several stocks. The solution for this game is simple: n is a losing position iff it is divided by 3. (n=0,3,6,9,...) --anon