Saturday, October 8, 2011

A puzzle/game.

A puzzle/game. Place the 12 Chambers dictionary entries AD, AH, AT, DO, HD, HT,OH, PA, PD, PO, PT and TO on the nodes of the grid so that no two nodesconnected by an edge have a letter in common (including the dashededges). All letters are from the word HOTPAD. The Game: Two pepple playalternately on the graph according to the keep away rules. Can you finda forced win for the second player? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ANSWERS AND SOLUTIONS One solution to the puzzle is: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For second to win at the two person game, he can simply play thecomplement of the First's play diametrically opposite it. The threepairs of complements are H-P, O-A and T-D. OSCAR THUMPBINDLE Timberland Cusp, OH

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