2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/120487These lecture notes are based on a short course on misère quotients offered at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, in November 2006. They include an introduction to impartial games, starting from the beginning; the basic misère quotient construction; a proof of the Guy--Smith--Plambeck Periodicity Theorem; and statements of some recent results and open problems in the subject.34 pages; fixed referencesCombinatoricsCommutative Algebra91A46text