Interesting. Ever played Nim? It's very mathematical. I used to teach it to my math and critical thinking students. If you're playing me in Nim and you give me the option to go first or second, I will win 100% of the time.

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Yes, I did. I once said this was like a 2D version of Nim, but no one understood because no one else had ever heard of Nim. Wait, now that I'm thinking, when I was a kid my grandfather once played a game with matches with me, he put a bunch of matches on the table then we took turns removing either 1, 2 or 3 matches until one couldn't.