To begin the Initiation into Conflict visit a School or University of Conflict. Win seven games of Reflection to pass the initiation.
Gaze into a reflecting pool to gain insight into this elegant game of spatial reasoning. Connect floating bubbles into thin sheets, but take care never to break an existing sheet.
To move, pick 3 bubbles to form a triangle. You may not intersect another triangle, or reuse a bubble.
The second player may, on their first move, choose to switch sides.
If the game reaches 2 bubbles remaining, the player who won my claim the victory instead of waiting for their opponent to concede.
This game may be comparable to the old game of Marriage (thus the need for the second player's option to switch sides).
At first, it appears there is little strategy involved, but there is. At the start there are (usually) 32 bubbles. The bubble count goes down by 3 each turn, as a triangle is completed. Therefore, by subtracting 6 from the current count repeatedly, you can see where the current player will end up.
If it will be your turn at 2 bubbles, then you will lose at 2. So, you must try and block off 3-5 bubbles so that when there are 5 left, there is no possible triangle.
If it will be your turn at 5 bubbles, you can either:
It is unlikely that all triangles can be blocked when 11 bubbles are left, so you are limited to the above strategies.
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reflection.jpg | Kem | September 4, 2004 9:53 pm | 77282 |