NIM matchsticks
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | Free | Michael Peternell | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
- Best NIM Game in App Store
- Beautiful graphics design (see screenshots)
- 2 game speeds: normal and fast. (click the NIM icon in the menu screen to change)
- 2 difficulty levels: easy (4 rows) and hard (5 rows)
- Beautiful animations when removing matchsticks
- Intuitive selection of match-sticks: works like selecting text in a word processor
- 2 types of game: Standard game and "misère"-style game. In the standard game, the person who takes the last matchstick, wins. In the "misère"-style game, you have to get the computer to take the last matchstick to win.
Reviews
Mathematically Broken
Ozzy Orion
On the hard mode of the "special" version of the game there no guarantee that one will be capable of winning. The winning patterns are: 1, 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, 5-5, 1-2-3, 1-4-5, and 2-4-6. If the player crosses out a match that leads to one of those patterns or a combination of these pattern he or she wins. However, the boards are often generated so that it is impossible to get that pattern and/or possible for the computer to get one of the winning patterns no matter what move the 1st player makes. In order to fix this the board generation would have to be fixed.
