Ladders

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Players alternately choose a number of ladder segments spending the numbers they got from their dice roll. First to claim 3 whole ladders wins. For 2 -4 human players or 1 player vs the computer.

This is a complex form of nim with a random element where pieces are added to the board until 3 heaps are claimed. The strategy of nim falls apart when there are 3 or more players. But this variant mitigates the problems by introducing the random element and players can choose to apply these random rolls in various ways to maximize their strategy.

zerothis # 2021-09-16 18:05:53