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Does Satyam have a winning strategy?

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Two friends Satyam and Ankit decides to play a game. They have 9 cards lying face up with numbers 1 to 9 written on them. They have to start picking up these cards alternately, without replacement. The person with exactly 3 cards which adds up to 15 wins the game. Satyam is given first chance to pick up a card .
Does Satyam have a winning strategy?

posted Jul 9, 2017 by Sumana

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If Satyam picks the number 5 he has 4 possible set of 3 number sum being equal to 15. All other number choices have 3 or less such sets. This makes him have an advantage.

answer Jul 10, 2017 by Tejas Naik



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