Tagged Questions

1
vote
0answers
97 views

Card game-ordering a deck [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Game Theory Matching a Deck of Cards Suppose we take a blank deck of $52$ cards, write the number $1$ on the first card, $2$ on the second card, and so on until we write ...
30
votes
1answer
1k views

Is War necessarily finite?

War is an cardgame played by children and drunk college students which involves no strategic choices on either side. The outcome is determined by the dealing of the cards. These are the rules. A ...
2
votes
1answer
316 views

A checkerboard problem

If $mn$ squares out of a $2m\times n$ white checkerboard are colored black, and a move consists of interchanging the color on any two squares who share a side, how many moves at maximum can it take to ...