Sprouts

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We played a game that John H. Conway he co-invented with Michael S. Paterson while they were both at Cambridge.

It is called Sprouts, and the rules are summarised by Nrich here.

You can try and discover some of the maths behind it by working through this article. We managed to prove the maximum and minimum number of moves for a game starting with three points.

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