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I may have misremembered the details of the game, or conflated it with another game. What I remember clearly is that the game was equivalent of tic tac toe on
by lotharbot 13y ago
I may have misremembered the details of the game, or conflated it with another game.
What I remember clearly is that the game was equivalent of tic tac toe on a torus -- one could win with a "diagonal" of the form
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x|.|.
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as well as any of the traditional tic tac toe win conditions.
- Someone 13y agoTic tac toe on toruses is fairly popular as an educational toy, and there also is serious research on it, for example http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~kwolcott/TTT.pdf http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~kwolcott/TTT.pdf. You might have mixed the 'on a torus' part with the 'using a magic square' part. No problem, but the two do not mix that way (maybe, on larger boards? That 4x4 Dürer square (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DuerersMagicSquare.html http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DuerersMagicSquare.html) has zillions of 'add up to 34' sets of cells. There may be even better ones of larger size)