Talk:Morpion solitaire: Difference between revisions

 

"Drawing a straight line" simply marks the line just completed so it's easier to see what happened. Each node is allowed to be shared by multiple lines, if the lines are all oriented at different directions. If two lines are aligned, apparently there are two different rules: the "T" (touching) rule says two colinear lines are allowed to share one end point only; the "D" (disjoint) rule says colinear lines can't share nodes at all. The following:<pre>AAAACBBBB</pre> is allowed by the T rule, where AAAAC and CBBBB are two legal lines; by D rule, only one of them is legal (whichever came first). On the other hand, <pre>XXXXXOOOOO</pre> are considered two legal lines by both rules. I'm unsure what happens if you put a piece at the blank in <pre>XXX_XXX</pre>--whether the whole thing is considered as one oversized line, or only 5 or them would be considered used... Then again, the whole thing is pretty bogus in that it's NP-hard so no "proper" solution exists, it's not much fun to play, and it's not much fun to watch, so there. --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 08:40, 19 July 2011 (UTC)