Conway's Soldiers
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title:
Conway's Soldiers
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Conway's Soldiers or the checker-jumping problem is a one-person mathematical game or puzzle devised and analyzed by mathematician John Horton Conway in 1961. A variant of peg solitaire, it takes place on an infinite checkerboard. The board is divided by a horizontal line that extends indefinitely. Above the line are empty cells and below the line are an arbitrary number of game pieces, or "soldiers". As in peg solitaire, a move consists of one soldier jumping over an adjacent soldier into an em
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Mathematical puzzle by John Conway
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Soldiers
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2023-09-27T15:15:19Z
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