kadie@uiucdcs.UUCP (10/04/84)
Here is the puzzle section from the Oct. 1 issue of
the ACM student chapter newsletter.
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Puzzles and Games
How about a nice game of 5-dimensional tic-tac-toe? Too easy you say?
O.K. then let's try it on a board of width 4, length 4, height 4, acmeth 4,
and pagth 4. (As everyone knows acmeth and pagth are the words describing
size in the fourth and fifth dimension.)
We join the game in progress. Eight moves have already been played.
O's lie at { (1, 4, 3, 4, 1), (2, 3, 3, 3, 2), (4, 1, 3, 1, 4),
(4, 2, 3, 1, 4)}, while player X has moved into the hyper-hyper-cubes of
{ (1, 2, 1, 4, 3), (1, 4, 1, 4, 1), (4, 1, 4, 1, 4), (4, 2, 4, 4, 1, 3)}
The winner is the first to get 4 in a, sometimes multi-dimensional, row.
So what is the next best move irregardless of whose turn it is? Sent
your answers to me via cyber mail (Kadie C), unix mail (Kadie, or CMK261),
or campus mail c/o ACM, D.C.L. I'll have the answer next issue.
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Dwygano Yknjan
Can you decipher this phrase? Last semester no one submitted the correct
answer so we're running it again. Hint: It is coded with a simple rule having
to do with the letter's position in the alphabet. If you wish to use a computer
try going through the 25 possible rules I may have used (hint, hint).
- Carl Kadie kadie@uiucdcs.UUCP (10/05/84)
On the 5-D Tic-tac-toe A more challanging problem is the O is at (2,2,3,3,2) not (2,3,3,3,2) Carl
kadie@uiucdcs.UUCP (10/07/84)
Last x position should read (4,2,4,1,3) Carl Kadie (thanks to J. Moseman and M. Crowford for finding this error)