Abstract
Long before rock and roll, television, and computer generated dinosaurs, a group of stones was all that was needed to provide hours of entertainment and learning for the Chinese. Thousands of years ago in China, the fascinating game of Nim was created and continues to challenge minds today. Nim is a strategic game with a secret order hidden within it by mathematics. Without applying mathematical logic, it is difficult to win. But, if you look for a pattern, you just might outsmart your opponent. A limited number of objects are arranged in rows, and a move consists in removing objects in one row. One wins by removing the last object. The solution of this game is known, and we can always tell who is going to win, assuming the two players are playing optimally. In this paper, we will first describe the solution for the Chinese Nim, and find the winning strategy for two variants of the Chinese Nim, where the players can remove matches from more than one row, or see what happens when the number of matches one can remove is limited.
