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Phutball

Phutball (short for Philosopher's Football) is a two-player abstract strategy board game described in Elwyn Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, and Richard K. Guy's Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays.

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Phutball

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Triples17
Avg. degree1.86
Density0.142857
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Phutball

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related to Further reading · 10
Phutball → Cambridge Univ, Grossman, More Games, MSRI Publications, No Chance, Nowakowski, One-Dimensional Phutball, PDF, Press, Richard
related to Rules · 7
Phutball → As, Eks, Go, In, Ohs, Rows, The

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Phutballrelated to Further readingGrossman0.60section
Phutballrelated to Further readingNowakowski0.60section
Phutballrelated to Further readingRichard0.60section
Phutballrelated to Further readingOne-Dimensional Phutball0.60section
Phutballrelated to Further readingPDF0.60section
Phutballrelated to Further readingMore Games0.60section
Phutballrelated to Further readingNo Chance0.60section
Phutballrelated to Further readingMSRI Publications0.60section
Phutballrelated to Further readingCambridge Univ0.60section
Phutballrelated to Further readingPress0.60section
Phutballrelated to RulesIn0.60section
Phutballrelated to RulesOhs0.60section

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