Month: July 2017

  • How to slay the dragon?

    My son came home from school with the following riddle, or rather a math puzzle: Let’s slay a monster. Here are the rules: – The monster has 3 heads and 3 tails. – You have a SWORD and you can choose between these actions: 1. Slash off ONE HEAD. Result: one head will grow back.…

  • Surakarta, a nice strategy boardgame

    This week, Leiden University is hosting the 15th International Conference on Advances in Computer Games.  The results for Chess are in and Komodo wins the 2017 championship: Apart from Chess, it is interesting to see how many different games are participating in the event. After looking at a list of games (huge!) I found the…