How Cinderella Won the Bucket Game (and Lived Happily Ever After)
Antonius J. C. Hurkens, Cor A. J. Hurkens, Gerhard J. Woeginger · Mathematics Magazine · 2011
SummaryThe paper investigates a combinatorial two-player game, in which one player (Cinderella) wants to prevent overflows in a system with five water-buckets whereas the other player (the wicked Stepmother) wants to cause such overflows. Several sub-optimal and optimal strategies for both players are analyzed in detail.