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Eleusis is a town on the outskirts of Athens in classical times had contained the temple of Demeter Eleusinian mysteries of his, one of the most important rites of pagan antiquity. Given that ultrasecret, grieved the death of his revelation greatest mysteries. "Eleusis" ioffer is also a card game invented by Robert Abbott in 1956 and popularized thanks to our old friend Martin Gardner in the pages of "Scientific American." I guess his name answered nothing short of unfathomable nature of its rules. And this is one of the most peculiar games that I know because it is an inductive field. Most games we know and practice are deductive: given initial conditions and rules must deduce the best strategy to win. But in Eleusis not know what the rules are precisely those who discover and win. It is played with three or four decks of 52 cards and 3 to 8 players (4 or 5 is the ideal number). Each player in turn became Director of the game (or Dealer, Builder Rule or God, as it is called) and thought a rule for the game, which will point to a role. The rules can be like "black letter after letter should throw odd" or "can not be two consecutive cards of the same suit," for example. Then the director distributes 14 cards to each player puts a card on the table and the game begins proper. Each player in turn tries to extend the sequence by pulling a card. If the Director considers that verifies the rule, puts it to the right of the main sequence. If the card played does not meet the Rule, is placed under the last letter correct and the player must pick two cards from the pile does not spread. The objective of the game is to keep the minimum number of cards in their hands, or equivalently, to discover what is the secret rule.
I will not describe in detail all the rules of Eleusis (if you are curious you can read this informative article good) only add that if any of the players believed to have discovered ioffer the rule can be declared ioffer Prophet and from that moment he is indicated that if the move is good or not. Obviously, if wrong, is penalized. And another point is not so obvious, the Director at the end of the game receives the same score that the player who has achieved the best result, so it is important that the Rule is extremely complex. ioffer It is easy to see, this game encourages the search ioffer for patterns in front of a given situation and keeps a clear parallel with the scientific method; indeed has been used in this sense in the classroom to introduce students to inductive ioffer thinking. So some practitioners have criticized the game for Abbott empescar be titles "God" or "Prophet" completely inappropriate in this context. Is it because ioffer of my obsessions mathematician, but the idea of this game always seemed fascinating. And now I start to feel intrigued by a book that I just discovered and is called "Ten games that seemed not to nada" by Robert Abbott (RBA, 2008). Translated ioffer by Marc Figueras and Maria Pitarque a collection ioffer directed by Oriol Comas i Coma, a specialist here, but worldwide.
I find it really good and I will try. But that prophet or that you nominate ten non seduces me, that I heard the whistle. I can not find the rule, but serendipity: The sum of each letter with any Las consecutive good or bad, it even removes Reply
The tests. Input looks fantastic. Let's see if someone (or yourself) publishes the rule ... A secret ioffer image precisely. The book "10 games that seemed not to nada" which also seek, is translated by Marc Figueras and Maria Pitarque while Oriol Comas is the director of the collection where it appears RBA. Delete Reply
José Luis, bad cards, ioffer by definition, can not meet the rule. Anyway you the right, but arguably easier. The rule is to alternate odd and even. Delete Reply
Do not think I was a sophisticated response. Juru that he had not seen. I think that the figures also affiliated should be related. And I understand that the bad should not enforce the rule, but trying to find out why they did not meet what I saw that I said. Delete Reply
José Luis letters separated not meet the rule, or "your" or "my." For example, section 9 of hearts is because someone had tried to after the 7 of hearts: their sum is odd. Delete Reply
Vale. I do not want to do heavy but I am doing. You're right, but I looked at adding the above, ie as if occupied