by MathPickle | Jul 22, 2016 |
Five Field Kono (Korean Game) If you are introducing this style of strategy game in your class you should get them to start with much smaller rectangles and fewer stones. The 5×5 rectangle with seven pieces is too complicated. Smaller rectangles will allow...
by MathPickle | Jul 5, 2016 |
Smothering Ninja Bed Bugs is important to stop itchy nocturnal sleeps on you King Size bed. Here is an infestation of your king size bed. It looks nasty. Your job is to smother all those Ninja Bed Bugs by covering them with rectangles. The Ninja Bed Bug Score...
by MathPickle | Jun 22, 2016 |
Solidarity – Poland, 1981 This game is a blend of strategy and deception. You start the game by being randomly dealt one of five cards (Communists, Nobility, Farmers, Clergy, Workers.) You secretly draw the Clergy. You want the Clergy to win. For...
by MathPickle | Jun 21, 2016 |
Richard Smalley was awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry for the discovery that he could make a very very small soccer ball out of Carbon atoms. In 2005 he suddenly began to shrink. He ended up so small that he could bounce on the little trampolines that make...
by MathPickle | Jun 15, 2016 |
Go is one of the oldest and most elegant of games. As the great Go educator Nick Sibicky says “If we discover intelligent life somewhere else in the universe – there is a good chance they will play Go.” That’s true. However they are...
