Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/203 - The Horse-Shoe Game
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Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $203$
- The Horse-Shoe Game
- This little game is an interesting companion to our "Noughts and Crosses".
- There are two players.
- One has two white counters, the other two black.
- Playing alternately, each places a counter on a vacant point, where he leaves it.
- When all are played, you slide only, and the player is beaten who is so blocked that he cannot move.
- In the example, Black has just placed his lower counter.
- White now slides his lower one to the centre, and wins.
- Black should have played to the centre himself, and won.
- Now, which player ought to win at this game?
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Sources
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Puzzle Games: $203$. -- The Horse-Shoe Game
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Game Puzzles: $472$. The Horseshoe Game