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Sprouts is a pencil-and-paper game with interesting mathematical properties
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- farnsworth 15y agoThis is interesting. Does anyone know of a way to play this game against a computer, besides the windows-only programs mentioned in WP? And how do you decide how many dots to start with?
- pradocchia 15y agoJust played for 15 min with my 5 year old. Line dot line dot hahaha. Good times.
- rgbrgb 15y agoSprouts is great! I gave a talk and did a project on it in my combinatorics class in college. I was thinking about doing an iPhone version in Obj-c or a web version. Anyone interested in this or know of an existing version?
- RBerenguel 15y agoThere's a version in the app store, but looks broken
- johncoogan 15y agoI couldn't find one either. I know a few guys who might be interested in helping out with an Open Source version though. Anyone want in?
- DEinspanjer 15y agoI think this would be a great toy game to do with Canvas and release as an HTML5 app.
- dwc 15y agoI was introduced to sprouts in Piers Anthony's novel Macroscope. This is a nice reminder. I need to play this with my daughter.
- Angostura 15y agoIt's a good game to play on a wave-washed beach with a pointed stick. Sorry, nostalgic for last year's summer holiday.
- Rexxar 15y agoOther comments on my first submission on HN, three years and half ago (!) : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=291606 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=291606
- coldarchon 15y agoAnother good one is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetrack_(game) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetrack_(game) Played it endless times and I can say it did not only improve my understanding of vectors.