Problem

Source: Dutch NMO 2021 p3

Tags: combinatorics, lattice points



A frog jumps around on the grid points in the plane, from one grid point to another. The frog starts at the point $(0, 0)$. Then it makes, successively, a jump of one step horizontally, a jump of $2$ steps vertically, a jump of $3$ steps horizontally, a jump of $4$ steps vertically, et cetera. Determine all $n > 0$ such that the frog can be back in $(0, 0)$ after $n$ jumps.