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[–] 9 points 5 months ago (5 children)

This should allow for an infinite draw, however if we assume our players do manage to fill the bottom row eventually, things change.

The lowest layer will be filled with sections that never have any more than three in a row.

If the board is even-infinite, player 1 will have the better chance at manipulating the upper layer in their favor.

If odd-infinite, then player 2 gets the advantage.

My guess is that the only way to never win is to find a tesselation pattern in which there is an equal number of each stone and no connect fours for anyone even when repeated on either side. The players would have to play that pattern perfectly and I’m not sure either would be inclined to do so.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    you didn't account for the heat death of the universe happening long before the materials needed to produce enough pieces run dry to satisfy rows 1-3.

    also since it seems linear, there may be an alternative solution to align the edge of the board with another reality to present artificial borders

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  • The universe can only really encode ~10^80 bits of information so an infinite board already means assuming this game is above the laws of our physical existence.

    As for borders, even if there was a first and last column with infinite rows in between, one only has to start in the middle to practically ignore the edges until after filling an infinite amount of the center to the point the edges are now a finite distance away.

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  • One time I won connect Infinity and my stupid younger brother knocked the whole thing over and eradicated half of the eastern seaboard.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago*

    “It’s a solved game… game… game…”

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    At least it's better than Connectπ. The circle board drops pieces.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I think I saw this in a hotel lobby once ages ago, but I can't remember for certain, I still haven't even found my room yet!

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Is this Meta's pivot after the Metaverse/VR failed?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I remember when all little kid toys came in the rec-yellow-blue color palette.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    This is where you go when you lose a match of crossfire

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Funny enugh you still need to stop other side from stacking 5 times on top of each other so game will end at some point.

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