Sprouts

In honour of John H. Conway, today we present a game that 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.

Anyone can play, so find someone in your house and play a few games, then try and discover some of the maths behind it by working through this article.

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