Below, du Sautoy shares five key insights from his new book,Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World’s Greatest Games.Listen to the audio version—read by Marcus himself—in the...
Blaise Muller’sQuartois tic-tac-toe on steroids. Complete a line of four pieces in which all four pieces share one characteristic in common. But there’s a twist: your opponent picks the piece you must play on your turn, and vice versa. Patchworkby polyomino master Uwe Rosenberg, is a ...
I ran out a side door with it under my arm like an American football. Strangely, nobody chased me or even yelled. I checked into the first hotel I came to. I sat on the bed and looked at the crown, imagining ways I could destroy it. I thought fire was my best bet, but ...
We are tasked with finding which of the 9 sections of the tic-tac-toe board a ball will (randomly) appear in. We choose the center. It comes up randomly in the NW corner. (It must like corners?). We choose the SW corner, it shows up in the NE corner. (see, it likes corners,...
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I could write an unbeatable tic-tac-toe program, use five different computer languages, and create 1000 line programs that WORKED. (Really!) Then I got out into the Real World. My first task in the Real World was to read and understand a 200,000 line FORTRAN program, then speed it up...