Questions tagged [board-games]
A board game is a game that involves counters or pieces moved or placed on a "board" according to a fixed set of rules.
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Deadlock possible in Minefield?
A deadlock is a position in which neither player has won and neither player has a legal placement available. My question is, "Can you find a deadlock position in Minefield?" And, if you ...
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Are draws possible in the game Nakatta?
I'd like to know if this game can end in a draw:
Nakatta is a connection game for two players: Black and White. It is played on the intersections (points) of an initially empty square grid (board). ...
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The ultimate backgammon
The following position, where one player has borne off all their checkers while all of the other player's checkers are on the bar (thus losing a backgammon), is reachable by a legal sequence of dice ...
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Catch the flag!
On a small island somewhere in Europe, a battle is fought in the middle of World War II.
Two armies, blue and red, have strategically positioned their troops against each other.
For convenience, the ...
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Logic and Geometry Problem #6
Is it possible for a deadlock to occur in Necklace? Can there be a square on which neither Red nor Blue can place a stone?
If it is possible, I need to see an example of that.
If a deadlock is not ...
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Count Pips Like a Backgammon Boss
In Backgammon, the pip count of a position is the total distance your happy stars need to travel in order to reach your home board and complete the bear-off. Pips refer to the number of dots on your ...
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Two-Move Chess Game
Consider a standard game of chess. We make the following modification: on a turn,
if a player makes a move which neither captures a piece nor puts their opponent’s
king in check, then they may make a ...
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King 2 men, but don't kill a man
I found mention of this challenge in a Science paper called "Checkers is solved" from 1996, but no example was given.
Beginning at starting position, play moves according to rules of ...
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Are there forced cycles in this game?
Players: Black and White.
A crosscut is a 2x2 subgrid with two white and two black stones, in which like-colored stones are diagonally adjacent (and opposite-colored stones are orthogonally adjacent)....
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Are infinite loops possible in the game Prodway?
I'd like to know if infinitely repeating sequences of moves (i.e. cycles) are possible in the following game:
Prodway is a game for two players (Black and White) that is
played on an initially empty ...
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Counting Tic-Tac-Toe draws on larger grids
Alice and Bob play a game of Tic-Tac-Toe on a grid of size $N \times M$. The rules of this game are the same as the original Tic-Tac-Toe:
Alice plays first (white); Bob plays second (black).
On each ...
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Are infinite loops possible in the game Reneo?
I'd like to know if infinitely repeating sequences of moves (i.e. cycles) are possible in the following game:
Reneo is a game for two players (Black and White) that is played on an
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Logic and geometry problem 2
My question is whether or not a deadlock can occur in Crisscross. A deadlock is defined as a position, an arrangement of checkers, in which the board has been filled but neither player has won.
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A Drink and a Game
I saw this text chain on my friend's phone. What was ordered to drink?
To answer, you'll need to figure out the name of the game they were playing. I'm sure you've heard of it. There are a few subtle ...
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