Bunco vs Nim

American social dice game played by rotating teams of two in six rounds, scoring for three-of-a-kind matches; it rose to widespread parlor popularity in the 1890s United States.

Nim is a mathematical strategy game in which two players alternately remove one or more objects from a single pile among several piles. Under the standard normal-play rule, the player taking the final object wins, and optimal play can be determined by computing the binary exclusive-or, or nim-sum, of the pile sizes. Charles L. Bouton published a complete analysis in 1901, making Nim a foundational...