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Ponder This Challenge:

The following integer sequences are the winning positions for a parametric two players game.

  1. Find the rules of the game which are consistent with the partial data.
  2. Fill in the missing values in the table according to those rules.


Parameter Sequence
11248163264128256512102420484096819216384...
2123581321345589144233377610987...
2.512357101522324769101148217318...
3               ...
3.51234681115212735466182109...
4               ...
4.512345791114182227344354...
512345681012151822273341...
5.512345681012151822263137...
61234567911131619232732...
6.51234567911131518212529...
71234567810121416192226...


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Challenge: 02/01/2008 @ 05:30 PM EDT
Solution: 03/03/2008 @ 11:00 AM EDT
List Updated: 03/04/2008 @ 1:00 PM EDT

People who answered correctly:

Balakrishnan V (02.01.2008 @11:44:00 PM EDT)
Minjen Mao (02.02.2008 @01:39:32 AM EDT)
Michael Brand (02.02.2008 @08:45:00 AM EDT)
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Andreas Kabel (02.05.2008 @05:59:23 PM EDT)
Rani Hod (02.06.2008 @07:28:49 AM EDT)
Gary M Gerken (02.07.2008 @07:07:08 AM EDT)
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Álvaro Martínez Echevarría (02.07.2008 @12:46:24 PM EDT)
Jimmy Hu (02.08.2008 @06:50:43 PM EDT)
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Maurizio Monge (02.11.2008 @01:40:50 PM EDT)
Dan Dima (02.12.2008 @05:24:08 PM EDT)
Mathias Krohn (02.13.2008 @07:38:54 AM EDT)
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Gale Greenlee (02.19.2008 @09:07:00 AM EDT)
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Albert Stadler (02.27.2008 @01:26 PM EDT)
Michael Talbot (02.27.2008 @09:25 PM EDT)
Dion Harmon (03.03.2008 @10:57 PM EDT)


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