Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, 1st Edition, Volume 1

Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, Richard K. Guy

This is a text on games and how to play them intelligently. In this volume, the authors examine games played in clubs, giving case studies for coin and paper-and-pencil games, such as Dots-and-Boxes and Nimstring.

Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays: First edition divides the content into two volumes. Second edition is comprised of four volumes. This is the 1st edition, volume 1.