FLAMES or FLAME is a paper-and-pencil game popular among school-aged children,[1] which is theoretically related to the Josephus problem and other counting-out games.
The reactions to the game's outcome may reveal a player's true feelings toward the person they are paired with.
The game, however, does not accurately predict the true relationship between any two persons.
This may reveal a player's true feelings toward the person they are paired with.
The following is a possible pythonic implementation of the Josephus problem variant: In the text these references are preceded by a double dagger (‡):