Welcome to the Josephus game;
Insipired by Peter Schumer's
Journal Article
"The Josephus Problem: Once More around".
Explanation:
This is a counting out game.
People are standing in a circle waiting to be executed.
Counting begins at point 1 in the circle and proceeds
around the circle in a clockwise direction. each person
executing the person to their right.
The procedure is repeated with the remaining people,
starting with the next person, going in the same direction
until only one person remains and is freed.
An example of a game consisting of 8 people:
In the example above, the game consists of 8 participants ,
and the winner turns out be the person sitting at position 1
So if the game had 8 participants , you would want to sit at position 1 to live and be freed.
The Number of Participants is: