Re: A Game Needing To Be Invented.

On Feb 3, 7:56 pm, Bill Taylor <w.tay...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> Is it possible to construct a MindNinja-type game pattern,
> i.e. a fixed pattern to be decided in advance of playing,
> that both players must try to achieve, to be played on
> some Hex or Quad board, that STILL has the property
> of win/loss complementarity?
>

I seriously doubt it.

>
> Now OC, there are already games like this, namely "Y"
> and its variants.  So I am specifically asking for a game
> whose pattern-to-be-achieved is purely LOCAL, as in
> 5-in-a-row; rather than GLOBAL, as in connection games.
>

It's not so much local vs global.  Y has a set of possible goals: all
of the patterns that are Y connections.  I think what you're talking
about is a single pattern, which could have any rotation and perhaps
mirrors.

>
> Anyone got any good ideas?
>

No.  Someday some highly gifted individual will prove it isn't
possible.