Eventual tail conjecture for four-stack Twyst-off positions

Consider positions in Twyst-off with four stacks, written (a,b,c,a)(a,b,c,a), and let a PP position be one from which the next player has no winning move.

Eventual tail conjecture. For every a>0a>0, there exist integers c0>b0>ac_0>b_0>a such that

(a,b0,c,a) is a P position if and only if cc0.(a,b_0,c,a)\text{ is a }P\text{ position if and only if }c\geq c_0.

This predicts an eventual interval of PP positions as the third stack grows, for a suitable fixed second stack. The statement appears after observations that remaining four-stack PP positions are complicated but exhibit long-run patterns; no proof or resolution is supplied.

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Primary source

Alex Meadows and Brad Putman, “A New Twist on Wythoff's Game”, arXiv:1606.06819 (2016).

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