Card-passing puzzle - clarification

[Meeussen Wouter (bkarnd)]

if n is even ...

   0   0   4   0
   0   1   2   1
   0   2   0   2
   2   0   2   0
   0   2   0   2
...
ad nauseam?

Wouter.


-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Arthan [mailto:rda at lemma-one.com]
Sent: woensdag 8 oktober 2003 17:10
To: seqfan at ext.jussieu.fr
Subject: Re: Card-passing puzzle - clarification


On Wednesday 08 Oct 2003 3:45 pm, Rob Arthan wrote:
> It is a game played by n players with n-1 cards. Each player is dealt a
> random number of the cards. Play then proceeds in rounds: in each round,
> each player with at least two cards passes one card left and one card
> right. I'm taking this as meaning all players play in parallel in each
> round, not in turn.
>...

Whoops! I should have added that they're sitting round in a circle so 
everybody has exactly one player to their left and one to their right.

Regards,

Rob.


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