This is a textbook that Kyle Burke and Craig Tennenhouse started writing in January 2021. Our main goal is to provide a free introductory CGT textbook appropriate for undergraduate students interested in the subject. Our bonus goal is that this can be used as a discrete math text, as there is no requirement of prior discrete math knowledge.
Yes! Download the most recent version (PDF). If you'd like a printed copy... well... we haven't figured that out yet. (Feel free to suggest things.)
The first version of this text was released on August 23, 2021. We are not keeping an archive of older versions.
There are three other major combinatorial games text books that we're aware of. Each of these goes deeper into the material than in our book, so we definitely recommend them for advanced readers: