Sprouts (game) (nonfiction): Difference between revisions

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A 2-spot game of Sprouts. The game ends when the first player is unable to draw a connecting line between the only two free points, marked in green.

Sprouts is a pencil-and-paper game with significant mathematical properties.

It was invented by mathematicians John Conway (nonfiction) and Michael S. Paterson at Cambridge University in the early 1960s.

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 == In the News ==
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 File:Superman-fighting-Brainiac.jpg|[[Brainiac (nonfiction)|Brainiac]] and [[Superman (nonfiction)|Superman]] accuse each other of cheating at Sprouts.
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 == Fiction cross-reference ==
+* [[Crimes against mathematical constants]]
+* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
 == Nonfiction cross-reference ==
-* [[Brainiac (nonfiction)]]
 * [[Conway's Game of Life (nonfiction)]]
+* [[Game (nonfiction)]]
 * [[John Conway (nonfiction)]]
-* [[Superman (nonfiction)]]
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+[[Category:Mathematics (nonfiction)]]