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Paper-and-pencil games or paper-and-pen games (or some variation on those terms) are games that can be played solely with paper and pencils (or other writing implements), usually without erasing. They may be played to pass the time, as icebreakers, or for brain training . [ 1 ]
An incomplete game of SOS. SOS is paper and pencil game for two or more players. It is similar to tic-tac-toe and dots and boxes, but has much greater complexity. [1] SOS is a combinatorial game when played with two players. In terms of game theory, it is a zero-sum, sequential game with perfect information.
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Sprouts is an impartial paper-and-pencil game which can be analyzed for its mathematical properties. It was invented by mathematicians John Horton Conway and Michael S. Paterson [1] at Cambridge University in the early 1960s.
A game of dots and boxes. Dots and boxes is a pencil-and-paper game for two players (sometimes more). It was first published in the 19th century by French mathematician Édouard Lucas, who called it la pipopipette. [1] It has gone by many other names, [2] including dots and dashes, game of dots, [3] dot to dot grid, [4] boxes, [5] and pigs in a ...
An example racetrack game with first few moves by two players. Racetrack is a paper and pencil game that simulates a car race, played by two or more players. The game is played on a squared sheet of paper, with a pencil line tracking each car's movement.
Lexicant is a paper and pencil word game for two players. A letter is written on a sheet of paper, and each player takes turns adding a letter either to the beginning or the end of this ever-growing word stem. Any word-stem a player creates must form part of a valid English word, without actually being a word itself.
MASH is a multiplayer paper-and-pencil game commonly played by children intended to predict one's future. The name is an acronym of "Mansion, Apartment, Shack/Street ...