Re: [pbmserv] New game: Fire and Ice

[Randall Bart <barticus@att.net>]

'Twas 03:15 PM +1000 on Monday 12/1/2003 when Cameron Browne wrote:
>    A player controls an island by forming a line or ring of three of
>    their pieces upon it.

>    The game is won by the first payer to form a similar line or ring of
>    three islands under their control.

Two points that I am assuming, thought they are not explicitly stated in 
the rules:

If you move one of the pieces that for a line, that breaks the line and you 
no longer control the island.

You can lose the game on your own move.

And I found a thoroughly unreadable article on the geometry of this 
game:  http://www.maa.org/news/mathmag083-094.pdf