A game like this with a million variations is almost immediately uninteresting. It makes it seem like the rules / strategy aren't fully formed and doesn't feel like something worth learning. The implementation is great though.
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#12How would you typically mark the walls when playing with pen and paper?
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#13How would you typically mark the walls when playing with pen and paper?
Draw a square around the X or O.
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#14A game like this with a million variations is almost immediately uninteresting. It makes it seem like the rules / strategy aren't fully formed and doesn't feel like something worth learning. The implementation is great though.
OTOH if all the variations are interesting games in their own right, the family is quite brilliant.
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#15Game rules are simple, great job to bring it online.
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#16A game like this with a million variations is almost immediately uninteresting. It makes it seem like the rules / strategy aren't fully formed and doesn't feel like something worth learning. The implementation is great though.
Au contraire, domino and chess are so mechanic that they're boring. Leave them to the machines
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#17Nice job!
Nikoli (the company that is credited to the rise of Sudoku!) has a lot of pen and paper games. Check it out.
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#18I had to play a few games to understand the rules, but I'm wining most games. How good is the bot? It's strange that you can make a few moves in each turn. With 1 move the strategy is too easy. Which is the standard lenght of the turns?
The bot is not very good, unfortunately. It's mainly useful to help understand the rules, as in your case. If you're interested in playing with an experienced player, ping me at nazar@vinnich.uk :) > Which is the standard lenght of the turns? The usual setup is a 10×10 grid with 3 moves per turn. More moves means more interesting manoevres are possible. I like 7 moves on 12×12.
Seems like a great opportunity to train a neural network model for bot. There is a good article on tic tac toe for a base https://nestedsoftware.com/2019/12/27/tic-tac-toe-with-a-neu...
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#19Great job at explaining the rules! Tried it out from my phone, how do I „confirm“ a move? I seem to be unable to actually finish a move.
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#20A game like this with a million variations is almost immediately uninteresting. It makes it seem like the rules / strategy aren't fully formed and doesn't feel like something worth learning. The implementation is great though.
Chess has a million variations too...
Some of the more common ones:
- Played seriously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess
- Played socially: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bughouse_chess
- Played non-seriously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losing_chess