Marienbad 2020

You can take as many coins as you like, as long as it is from one row only.
Whoever takes the last one loses.

This game is a variant of the ancient Nim game and had a great success in 1961, with the release of the movie "Last Year in Marienbad".
60 years later we offer this game, in which you have to challenge your mobile phone.

In the "Classic" mode you can play with four rows of 1, 3, 5 and 7 coins.

Once you have become familiar with this configuration you can switch to "Random" mode: a different configuration will be offered to you for each game.

To practice the game or to experiment, you can use the "Training mode". In this mode, you will define the initial configuration.

Your opponent will be the computer (mobile phone or tablet).

Your skill level will be automatically calibrated based on your progress ...
It is not artificial intelligence! Let's say that until the phone notices that you are good enough, every now and then it thinks about something else and gets distracted.
The better you get, the harder the challenge will be.

The most interesting aspect of the game is that the player always has an advantage, because he has the possibility to decide whether to make the first move.
Nonetheless, the computer has gotten used to winning ... it has gotten a little high and doesn't want to lose. If he loses he is offended.
For this reason, quoting the film, his motto is: "I can lose but I always win".


The game is a classic in the history of computing, because the strategy for victory is based on binary logic.
The first software to play Marienbad was written for the mainframe in 1962. It was possibly the first computer game in history.
This app is an invitation to the youngest to discover binary logic.