Sprouts (game) (nonfiction)

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.

In the News

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  Brainiac and Superman accuse each other of cheating at Sprouts.

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Gnomon algorithm

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Conway's Game of Life (nonfiction)
• Game (nonfiction)
• John Conway (nonfiction)

External links:

• Sprouts (game) @ Wikipedia