How Cinderella Won the Bucket Game (and Lived Happily Ever After)

• Autores: Antonius J.C. Hurkens, Cor A.J. Hurkens, Gerhard J. Woeginger
• Localización: Mathematics magazine, ISSN 0025-570X, Vol. 84, Nº. 4, 2011, págs. 278-283
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.4169/math.mag.84.4.278
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• Resumen

  • The paper investigates a combinatorial two-player game, in which one player (Cinderella) wants to prevent overflows in a system with five water-buckets whereas the other player (the wicked Stepmother) wants to cause such overflows. Several sub-optimal and optimal strategies for both players are analyzed in detail.