Inventive Strategies For The Game of Sticks

  1. Make your opponent move into two even rows. If you do, you automatically win.
  2. Do not let your opponent do this to you.
  3. Winning Combos:
    
    	3	1	1	1	2	3			Any of the numbers in a single column can be switched.   																												
    	5	4	2	1			4	5
  4. If you go first take one away from the bottom row.
  5. Use bianary or base two to understand this: If it all adds up to an even number in bianary at the end of your turn, it is a winning combonation.
  6. In bianary the number places are set up like this:
    	___  ___  ___  ___  ___  
                       16     8     4      2     1