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@feddit.dehttps://www.shutupandsitdown.com/shut-up-sit-down-quinns-quest-and-the-year-ahead/
https://bgammon.org/blog/20240201-how-to-play-backgammon/
A guide on the rules and strategy of backgammon
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TfrduR0L6HRwAGfjjJouZzi_4TwSIobX2KsD_XfQq0k/edit
Just Got My Basic Board Game Table, Where and What Accessories Can I Add?
I commissioned this very basic board game/dining table so there isn't much going on right now.
I was wondering if I could add something detachable on the sides like cup holders or card holders.
I was thinking to hire a 3D print service or maybe there are ready-made stuff out there that I could buy instead.
I'm very excited to play on this table.
https://youtu.be/whAeP0W5zY4?feature=shared
Who wants to spend half an hour learning how to play a game? No one. Watch this short tutorial and start playing Flamecraft in no time!Learn how to play Flam...
https://teachroot.yay.boo/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/151EIS_gIEM2kPJUSKvMyZW2ZqDWj_NkrMU2JsFS7roA
https://www.gamesradar.com/my-favorite-horror-board-game-is-getting-a-gorgeous-card-game-spin-off/
It will be a "speedrun of terror & chaos"
Note that while this is "optimal" placements, it is not the best sequence in-game. For example, sequence 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 are going backwards. I'm not sure how to rewrite my program to account for the top-down placements per round however. So there's still work to be done.
This was a relatively simple brute-force bot that exhaustively checked all possibilities for the best possible placement. So I'm pretty sure I've go the best placement here. Well, maybe it was more "Dynamic Programming". I worked backwards: I calculated all possible 17-placement endgames (there's only 1.081 million of them, aka 25-choose-17), and then back-calculated all possible moves back to move#1.
Then I calculate from move#1 forward, choosing the best endgame move now that all possible endgames have been searched. Chess-programming fans would know this as a "Tablebase" approach.
EDIT: Searching the ~60 million possible optimal games proved to be difficult, as my computer ran out of RAM at 2GB (ummm... I got a 32GB system here. WTF Windows?). I'm sure there was some compiler flag I messed up on.
But I did a few heuristics and came up with the following board:
This is a 17-placement across 5 rounds with as many placements on the "top" of the board that I could find with my program.
EDIT:
https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-the-game/news/monty-python-holy-grail-bord-game-working-catapult-backerkit
Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The Game contains a functioning catapult and a castle full of references to the 1975 B…