[Gmaster479]

How many of you have played this game? You know the game where you make lines on a board and you try to avoid letting everyone else make squares? If you don't I'll explain it and run through a basic game for you.

Let's just say that Player 1 is first. He makes a line on the page. It has to be vertical or horizontal and can only be between 2 dots. After that Player 2 makes a line, probably in a different place, in just the same way.

I'm thinking this game will have 4 players and even though it seems easy at first, after a while you want to try and avoid making the third line of a square because the next player can then make a square, put his or her intials in it and then proceed to go again. Possibly making another square. In the end the person with the most squares with their initials in it wins.

In a couple hours, The next post will have an example of how a game would end.

EXAMPLE SIGN UP:

Player 1: GMaster479 (GM)

Player 2: A.I (AI)

Player 3: WilsonsMum (WM)

Player 4: voltage: (VT)

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<(^-^)>

[Gmaster479]

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Getting closer to the fun part

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[andromeda]

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<(^-^)>

Edited April 30, 2009 by Kathleen

[Gmaster479]

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<(^-^)>

[Gmaster479]

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I think this is it so far

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<(^-^)>

[Gmaster479]

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[Guest]

Well, I see two to three chains here, which means that no matter what I do, it looks like I'm not getting any points. It looks like I can split the points up as 2, 4 and 19, but I think I'd rather have a closer score, somthing like 9, 12, 4.

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[Gmaster479]

Well, I see two to three chains here, which means that no matter what I do, it looks like I'm not getting any points. It looks like I can split the points up as 2, 4 and 19, but I think I'd rather have a closer score, somthing like 9, 12, 4.

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There is only one problem with that A.I. If you look at my post on the top of Page 6 (Post #61) compared to your post afterwards (Post #62), you will see that there is a mistake where the line that was on 29, 35 was moved mistakenly to 30,36. Andromeda copied yours to her reply or used Notepad and kept it the same and it continued. According to my board, the line is in the wrong place and you might get a few squares Here is the corrected board in the code

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[Guest]

There is only one problem with that A.I. If you look at my post on the top of Page 6 (Post #61) compared to your post afterwards (Post #62), you will see that there is a mistake where the line that was on 29, 35 was moved mistakenly to 30,36. Andromeda copied yours to her reply or used Notepad and kept it the same and it continued. According to my board, the line is in the wrong place and you might get a few squares

Here is the corrected board in the code

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Oh ya, I see it now. i think some of the moves up to date might have been different though if we were aware of the mistake.

[andromeda]

OK this is where we were before GM's post #65!

In numbers:

GM - 1, 2

AI - 2, 3

AD - 30, 36

KT - 14, 15

GM - 23, 29

AI - 31, 32

AD - 6, 12

KT - 7, 13

GM - 11, 17

AI - 13, 14

AD - 14, 20

KT - 25, 31

GM - 27, 33

AI - 32, 33

AD - 4, 5

KT - 3, 4

GM - 15, 16

AI - 1, 7

AD - 21, 22

KT - 33, 34

GM - 29, 30

AI - 22, 23

AD - 18, 24

KT - 10, 16

GM - 12, 18

AI - 19, 25

AD - 5, 6

KT - 34, 35

GM - 3, 9

AI - 20, 26

AD - 17, 23

KT - 21, 27

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I think that this is the correct one so Gmaster should continue from here

Edited May 2, 2009 by andromeda

[Gmaster479]

I see. Thanks for that Andromeda. I think I got it right with the code and stuff now but please make sure

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[Guest]

Erm, who's turn is it?

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[Guest]

I guess it's my turn since I usually go after Gmaster

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[andromeda]

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gm:

AI: 4 squares

an: 1 square

kt:

Edited May 3, 2009 by andromeda

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ka: 4 squares

<(^-^)>

Edited May 3, 2009 by Kathleen

[Gmaster479]

Sorry, accidentaly pressed 'Add Reply' while previewing my post below

Edited May 3, 2009 by Gmaster479

[Gmaster479]

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Kat set me up beautifully to take it all! I think this ends it, but please confirm to make sure

EDIT: Can't type

Edited May 3, 2009 by Gmaster479