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Grid game in ARO
Source: ARO 2021 10.5/11.5
4/20/2021
A teacher and her 30 students play a game on an infinite cell grid. The teacher starts first, then each of the 30 students makes a move, then the teacher and so on. On one move the person can color one unit segment on the grid. A segment cannot be colored twice. The teacher wins if, after the move of one of the 31 players, there is a
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1\times 2
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2\times 1
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rectangle , such that each segment from it's border is colored, but the segment between the two adjacent squares isn't colored. Prove that the teacher can win.
combinatorics