[geoschmo]

It's simple rules, but the strategy comes in trying to anticipate your opponents moves. If you think he's the type to put ten in each box, then you can put 11 in 9 boxes and 1 in 1 box and win 9 out of 10. But there is no perfect strategy because a style that will beat one type of player might lose to another.

The discussion I read was more from a theoretical game science point of view than an "This is fun, let's play" perspective anyway. The game had a particular name and was used in discussing classifying other games. As in "This game is a "blank-type" game."