The Game of Islands
Let’s talk a little bit about Islands. It’s a game for two players, and each player has a board, which consists of a grid of one hundred coordinates. The grid is labeled with the numbers 1 through 10 across the top for the columns and down the left side for the rows. We name individual coordinates with this row-column combination.
The players cannot see each other’s boards.
The players have matching sets of islands of various shapes and sizes, which they place on their own boards. The players can move the islands around as much as they like until they say that they are set. After that, the islands must stay where they are for the rest of the game.
Once both players have set their islands, they take turns guessing coordinates ...
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