Figured it out after a few hours and now can win at will.
Give it a try....

http://www.wimp.com/pearls/

 

that game is horrible

 

I lost

 

I couldnt take it anymore, bastard was getting on my nerves. I opened up two windows and in one let him go first. Then I just copied his every move in the other and I beat it! Haha, who says cheaters never win?

 

haha, that's cheating.
but to win every time is real easy.
Use the binary calculaiton and you win every time
For eg.
At the start:
000(pearls) converts to binary 011
0000 to 100
00000 to 101
000000 to 110
Add it up=322

You just continue to take the pearls until the binary numbers continuosly add up to even numbers and boom, your gauranteed to win all the time!

 

I beat it the first time I played it, and that **** won everytime after that. haha.