• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Eternal Picaria
  • Contributor: Larsson, Urban; Rocha, Israel
  • imprint: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017
  • Published in: Recreational Mathematics Magazine
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/rmm-2017-0016
  • ISSN: 2182-1976
  • Keywords: General Medicine
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p> Picaria is a traditional board game, played by the Zuni tribe of the American Southwest and other parts of the world, such as a rural Southwest region in Sweden. It is related to the popular children’s game of Tic-tac-toe, but the 2 players have only 3 stones each, and in the second phase of the game, pieces are slided, along specified move edges, in attempts to create the three-in-a-row. We provide a rigorous solution, and prove that the game is a draw; moreover our solution gives insights to strategies that players can use.</jats:p>
  • Access State: Open Access