Re: [pbmserv] Five in a row.... with a twist

["Roland Johansson" <roland.johansson@mbox2.swipnet.se>]

well the rules are easy

start with an empty board and then you add a marble
and then turn anyone of the quadrants 90° in any direction

it's probably rather easy, there are only 36 moves to do,
shouldn't be that hard to solve although the changing board
might complicate it...

they ask for 350 SEK for it in one of the shops,
that's close to $40, they can keep dreaming...  :)

Rolle


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David J Bush" <twixt@cstone.net>
To: <pbmserv-users@gamerz.net>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [pbmserv] Five in a row.... with a twist


> | A Swedish publisher is just launching a new game called Pentago
> | (http://www.pentago.se/) the page is still only in Swedish. The game is
> | a simple five in a row but with a little diffrent concept as the board
> | moves...
> |
> | Now to why I am actually writing all this is to see if anybody can see
> | if this game have the same disadvantage as a standard game of five in a
> | row? In five in a row the first player has quite an advantage compared
> | to the second player. It is evem proven that with a perfect game the
> | first player can always win but what do you think about this version?
>
> Like you said, only in Swedish. When I click on the English flag I get
> "under construction." So how can I answer your question? I don't know
> what the opening protocol is. I see the java moving board display, but
> that leaves lots of unanswered questions. Even with the rotating
> quadrants, it looks like such a simple game compared to Gomoku or
> Renju, that a computer program could probably completely solve it.
> So, perhaps game balance is not the main issue; it doesn't seem very
> interesting in the first place.
>
> David Bush (chmeee)
>
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