We have a game for next year's Sprouts! Gorgons, which is quite similar to Amazons. Each turn you choose one of your (non-stone) Gorgons to move, pick a direction a Chess Queen can move and then move it in that direction (or keep it still). Before your Gorgon moves, it uses its gaze to turn a space to stone. If there is another Gorgon in the direction it's chosen, it turns that one to stone. Otherwise it turns the last clear space in that direction to a stone block. (You can't choose a direction where there isn't any free space.) It's a normal play game, so you lose when you can't make a move.

Gorgons is playable here: http://kyleburke.info/DB/combGames/gorgons.html The basic AI is terrible (they needlessly turn their own pieces to stone a lot). I've been enjoying playing as just one gorgon against a team of many.

We don't have a date yet for #Sprouts2024 (it'll probably be a Saturday in April). There will be a human tournament and an AI tournament. I'll work on getting the webpages up with instructions to submit your own AI player.

#Sprouts2024 #SproutsConference #CombinatorialGames #Gorgons #UndergraduateResearch

A peek inside today's offering from the vaults, the Ladybird book Famous Legends Vol. 1
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Holy hell, y’all, my book Protectress has a featured review in Kirkus! https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kendra-preston-leonard/protectress/ Get the book at https://a.co/d/1MGlSp1. #Mythology #Medusa #Gorgons #Poetry

A “tiny” detail that pretty sure has not be missed by my fellow #greek #mythology nerds: in #wednesday boys can be #syrens and #gorgons too.
I wasn’t expecting loving this show so much and here I am 52 yo physician writing about Wednesday Addams at 8 AM on Monday while waiting for my patients

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