nim

Definitions


[nɪm], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a game in which two players alternately take one or more objects from one of a number of heaps, each trying to take, or to compel the other to take, the last remaining object


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Origin:
early 20th century: apparently from archaic nim ‘to take’ or from German nimm! ‘take!’, imperative of nehmen




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