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July 18

Achi (game), a possibly solved game

Hi there. Is Achi (game) easily proven to be a solved game? It is related to the "trivially solvable" game called Three Men's Morris, so I thought it might be.

I'm not sure if this should be asked here, but I will anyway:

Should we create Category:Solved games and Category:Partially solved games and add items listed at solved game, including, of course, article solved game?

Cheers, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 19:23, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

Ah, a user has pointed out here that it appears to be solved. I couldn't see the ref that said so.

So, many of the games at solved game do not mention "solved", and probably should, right? Again, this may not be the right place to discuss this, but what the heck. Shall we boldly get all this sorted? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 19:27, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

Looking at Three Men's Morris, it seems very badly written. Someone needs to have a look at it. I may have the time later this week... -- SGBailey (talk) 15:00, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Wild tic-tac-toe

Is Wild tic-tac-toe solved? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:31, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

The article says it is. Any game with such a small number of possible states is trivial to just brute-force with a computer anyway. --Deacon Vorbis (talk) 12:17, 20 July 2017 (UTC)