sprat: multiplayer solitaire

Wed, 29 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000

I took a quick pass at describing the rules of a card game I grew up playing, Sprat:

Each player(or team) has 1 deck of cards. initial setup is 4 cards face up (the “personal piles”), 13 cards (top card face up, others face down) in the “sprat deck”, and the remaining cards in the “flip deck”.

The center of the table is the space for the “ace piles”. A new ace pile can be started by any player with any ace; any player can play the next card of the same suit on any ace pile.

Game of Life

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

When I was a sophomore in high school, I was fascinated with [ Conway’s Game of Life]. I still am. I did a pretty rudamentary study of the kinds of patterns that could form from the simple rules of the game.

One thing that wasn’t available when I was a sophomore was Youtube. Two of my favorite Game of Life videos:

Another direction that Game of Life has gone recently is something that I really should have thought of, honestly. Many times I’ve thought that there’s at least some superficial relationship between Game of Life and diffusion equations. Turns out that S. Rafler has extended Game of Life to continuous domains through what he calls SmoothLife.

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sprat: multiplayer solitaire

Game of Life