[gylterud]

Cool! I haven’t thought about varying the number of stones one could put. It’s definitely a variation to look into!

Would your intuition be that this makes it so that neither player has a winning strategy? That perfect play would yield an infinite sequence?

[gcanyon]

My intuition would be that either there is an infinite game possible and perfect play produces a stalemate, or games must inevitably end, and someone must have a winning strategy — in which case I’m betting its player 2, who makes the first “real” move.