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Revision as of 19:46, 14 June 2016

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 Horton Conway and Michael S. Paterson at Cambridge University in the early 1960s.

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

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