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What is my best line of play in order to win most squares? If I play FG my
opponent will play BF and score one point. Then, as he has the right to play
again, he will score another with EF and again with 11, and still again with GK.
If he now plays CD, I have nothing better than D H (scoring one), but, as I
have to play again, I am compelled, whatever I do, to give him all the rest.
So he will win by 8 to I-a bad defeat for me.
What should I have played instead of that disastrous FG? There is room
for a lot of skillful play in the game, and it can never end in a draw.
- THE TEN CARDS
Place any ten playing cards in a row as shown. There are two players. The
first player may turn down any single card he chooses. Then the second
player can turn down any single card or two adjoining cards. And so on. The
player who turns down the last card wins.
Remember that the first player must turn down a single, but afterwards
either player can turn down either a single or two adjoining cards, as he
pleases. Should the first or second player win?
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