Applegate–Jacobson–Sleator conjecture for misère Sprouts

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Let Sp−S_p^- denote the misère version of Sprouts starting with pp spots. Applegate–Jacobson–Sleator conjecture. The first player has a winning strategy in Sp−S_p^- if and only if pp is equal to 00 or 11 modulo 55. Josh Purinton's computation disproved this claim at p=12p=12, where the first player wins.

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Julien Lemoine and Simon Viennot, “Analysis of misere Sprouts game with reduced canonical trees”, arXiv:0908.4407 (2009).

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