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(...) Jeeese - you made me dig up one of my old game theory texts :) I believe (and someone please correct me if I am wrong) that 3-in a row on anything board 3x4 or larger can always be won by the first player (if neither makes mistakes :) If you (...) (18 years ago, 10-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) How about 2 TTT games... 3x3 for the dummies like me, and 4x4 for smarter people. Make them both marbles and just extend the grid. Some might make theirs compete on both based on different programs (or the same, with some different logic)... (...) (18 years ago, 10-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) It may be deterministic, but I doubt many could fit the entire solution tree into an RCX. How about making time a factor. In a cat's game, the faster playing bot wins (would need a way to time accurately, though). I think the complexity of (...) (18 years ago, 10-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Count me in for one.... (18 years ago, 10-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I think we have had a few 'really hard' competitions--C$ comes immediately to mind And how many entries did we have? And a 'relatively' easy one--rope climbing--what--2 entries? We've ran block/marble stacking/sorting numerous times and we get (...) (18 years ago, 10-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Since I won't be at dinner (most likely), here is my 2 cents, based on Chris' board, and the one used by the the club with blocks. My proposed board: (URL) One player has the red area, one has the blue. During a bots turn, it can be anywhere (...) (18 years ago, 10-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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Well, I'm not really into this 3T concept because of two things: a) Deterministic b) Done before Not to say for b) we've done everything original, but in general I'd like to keep the flavour in that direction. So...I was chatting with John... and (...) (18 years ago, 10-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Yes! (...) I love how this is different, and would love to see the two-tone grey of shading in the pieces. I think it would look fantastic, sort of "colorized" or whatever that term is for when you take a picture and reduce it to like 16 (...) (18 years ago, 10-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) On one hand, I think using the soccer/basketballs would be really cool. It opens up different EOAT possibilities: you could use a pick-and-place mechanism with a gripper, or simply a magazine. However cool Iain's mechanism is, I seriously (...) (18 years ago, 10-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Yes, for up to $20. (...) I like the solid 3D look - different from the originals,. Would prefer the same old Blue color... or maybe black? John (18 years ago, 10-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Snipped details. Hey that is very cool! Watching this, gave me an idea, (totally unrelated to "tic tac toe")... but remember when we were at the hobby show, and you and I saw those plastic toys where the animal with a magnet goes down (via (...) (18 years ago, 9-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I need to be convinced that gray on gray is actually going to look like something. (...) Yes. (...) I like the two colour look. I like that it's different from the old shirt. (...) Derek (18 years ago, 9-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I'll buy one for 20 bucks. (...) Lineart. With dimensions if you can. The old shirt is great. Hell, I'd pay another 20 bucks for a new old style shirt. (...) And I'd buy one in a muted orange like the skate kids wear these days. Ralph (18 years ago, 9-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) What in the love of god is this fascination with Steve's balls?! Other than the obvious? They're hard to grab. Even Steve used these 4x4 blocks for his own 3T game. The suction cup looks finicky. It's one of those systems that is hard to (...) (18 years ago, 9-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Hello to the peoples. Snap Snap Snap. This is the new shirt design for 2006: (URL) majority of them will be on dark solid grey, not on orange. Unusual colours can be ordered though. Question for you to follow up this post on: -Would you buy one of (...) (18 years ago, 9-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In another thread Derek implied that if we used the soccer balls that Steve has distributed to the Lego community, then robots built for r22 and a Tic Tac Toe game would only have one solution. "... I'm not a big fan of the soccer ball marker idea. (...) (18 years ago, 9-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Well, if you make them easier in terms of more defined, I'm not sure that would be good. It would make things easier, and perhaps for first time builders it would be good... ...but then you wouldn't see different strategies. If say the rope (...) (18 years ago, 9-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I find it hard to get excited about games like tug of war. But then I've never done well with free roaming robots. Given the number of games we played on the Tug of War afternoon I don't think we had a problem with the games needing to run smoother. (...) (18 years ago, 9-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Do we make the games to hard? If we had a simpler "less" complex game would the games run smother? I dont mean a "simple" game. As an example, I mean, something like tug of war, BUT not with the free rope part. Chris (18 years ago, 9-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) yes rob, you are correct, this COULD be a game of pre held tokens. BUT, wouldn't it be cooler to have the tokens, at some pre determined place, then you had to go and grasp the token, THEN place it? Chris (18 years ago, 7-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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