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He could have used Mechanical Turk to solve them. ;) Growing up, we had a favorite game. That is until my sister solved it in that going first you could always
by jonah 16y ago
He could have used Mechanical Turk to solve them. ;)
Growing up, we had a favorite game. That is until my sister solved it in that going first you could always win. It wasn't as fun after that.
- mryall 16y agohttp://xkcd.com/832/ http://xkcd.com/832/
- jonah 16y agoI like that one. Ours was a different game: Mühle. Also Mill or Nine Men's Morris. I just discovered that Ralph Gasser solved it in 1996 using retrograde analysis and an 18-ply alpha- beta search. [1] Becoming "the first non-trivial game to be solved that does not seem to benefit from knowledge-based methods." [1] http://library.msri.org/books/Book29/files/gasser.pdf http://library.msri.org/books/Book29/files/gasser.pdf