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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 [[File:Sprouts two spot game.png|thumb|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)|John Horton Conway]] and Michael S. Paterson at Cambridge University in the early 1960s.
+It was invented by mathematicians [[John Conway (nonfiction)]] and Michael S. Paterson at Cambridge University in the early 1960s.
+== In the News ==
+<gallery>
+File:Superman-fighting-Brainiac.jpg|[[Brainiac (nonfiction)|Brainiac]] and [[Superman (nonfiction)|Superman]] accuse each other of cheating at Sprouts.
+</gallery>
 == Fiction cross-reference ==
-<gallery mode="traditional">
+* [[Crimes against mathematical constants]]
-</gallery>
+* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
 == Nonfiction cross-reference ==
 * [[Conway's Game of Life (nonfiction)]]
+* [[Game (nonfiction)]]
 * [[John Conway (nonfiction)]]
-== External links==
+External links:
-* [http://wiki.karljones.com/index.php?title=Sprouts_(game) Sprouts (game)] @ wiki.karljones.com
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouts_(game) Sprouts (game)] @ Wikipedia
-[[Category:Fiction (nonfiction)]]
 [[Category:Nonfiction (nonfiction)]]
+[[Category:Games (nonfiction)]]
+[[Category:Mathematics (nonfiction)]]