The vertex picking game and a variation of the game of dots and boxes
Authors:
Henry Meyniel and Jean-Pierre Roudneff
Affiliation:
E.R. 175 Combinatoire, U.E.R. 48, Université P. et M. Curie, 75005 Paris, France
Abstract:
A two-player game played on a graph is introduced and completely solved. As a consequence, a solution to a simplified variation of a well-known game called dots and boxes played on a grid [2] is given.