Phutball Draws
Combinatorics
2025-04-10 v1
Abstract
In this short note, we exhibit a draw in the game of Philosopher's Phutball. We construct a position on a 12 x 10 Phutball board from where either player has a drawing strategy, and then generalize it to an m x n board with m-2 >= n >= 10.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2504.06451,
title = {Phutball Draws},
author = {Sucharit Sarkar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.06451},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
This note is from several years ago, but was never uploaded to the ArXiv. This has already been published in the book "Games of No Chance 5"