The characterization of P-positions for triangular chocolate bar games when k is 1 modulo 4

Let kk be a positive integer, and let (x,y,z)(x,y,z) denote a position in the triangular chocolate bar game, with x,y,zZ0x,y,z\in Z_{\geq 0}. A position is a P-position if the next player has no winning strategy, and write \oplus for bitwise exclusive OR. P-position characterization. When k=4m+1k=4m+1 for some mZ0m\in Z_{\geq 0}, (x,y,z)(x,y,z) is a P-position if and only if

(x1)y(z1)=0.(x-1)\oplus y\oplus (z-1)=0.

The statement is supported in the paper by computational evidence from CGSuite for the case k=5k=5; its status is not established by the supplied text.

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Ryohei Miyadera, Shunsuke Nakamura and Masanori Fukui, “Impartial Triangular Chocolate Bar Games”, arXiv:1711.04954 (2017).

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