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Thibault de Vassal    (2009-12-16)
Go game 3D

What a headache... :)

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~hq8y-ishm/3dgo/3dgo.html

Did anyone see a variant of Go on a 2d board with triangles, pentagons or hexagons ?

Must be interesting.


Philip Roe    (2009-12-16 18:44:59)
possibilities

I dont know much about Go, but I do know that you cannot cover a region of the plane with pentagonal tiles.

If a polygon has n sides, each angle is 180-360/n degrees, and this must be a factor of 360 if some number of these polygons can meet in a point. The only possibilties are six triangles, four squares or three hexagons.

Other, irregular shapes can be combined to tile without gaps. They would be even more of a headache!


Thibault de Vassal    (2009-12-17 11:16:54)
3dGo

True, thanks Philip.

I created a thread at GoDiscussions on that topic, a member mentioned another discussion :

http://godiscussions.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10871
http://www.godiscussions.com/forum/showthread.php?t=250

It reminds me that I played 3d Blokus a few months ago, it is a quite strange game also, particularly compared to 2d-squared Blokus !


Don Groves    (2009-12-18 00:10:10)
3D Go

You're right about one thing, Thib, the headache! I get one just thinking about it ;-)