Max + Lewis = Fight?
Source: Brazil EGMO TST 2023 #3
November 10, 2022
combinatorics
Problem Statement
There are cards. Max and Lewis play, alternately, the following game
Max starts the game, he removes exactly card, in each round the current player can remove any quantity of cards, from card to cards, which is the number of removed cards by the previous player, and the winner is the player who remove the last card. Determine all the possible values of such that Max has the winning strategy.