The players are so good at playing the game they can knock down the desired skittles at will. The last player to move wins. Let K n stand for a Kayles position of n adjacent pins. Scoring is an example of Subtraction games in which only a prescribed number of objects may be removed on a single move. In the applet below you are given a number of minuends and a number of subtrahends .
Players take turns subtracting subtrahends from minuends - one subtraction at a time.
Only non negative results are legal. The player unable to move loses. To perform a move, select a minuend and then click on a subtrahends. The game has three parameters. Max is the absolute maximum of minuends.