#hackenbush

[janmisali]

I've been stuck on this for months. this hackenbush position is supposed to be a win for Red if Red goes first, but I'm not even close to figuring out how, and I can't even look up the solution. anyone here good at hackenbush

[faerie-entrails]

how it feels to be plural sometimes:

[image description: a simple picture of hackenbush's quantification of: * || 0 . to put it simply: this basically means * is often confused with 0, yet is not the same as 0. also can be thought of as parallel yet not the same.]

[teenagedirtstache]

[curiosamathematica]

RIP John Conway

Today, sadly, one of the greatest mathematical minds (and the author’s mathematical idol) passed away. John Conway leaves a legacy of the most awe-inspiring mathematical and magical mind-twisters—the Monster group and monstrous moonshine, surreal numbers, Sprouts, Hackenbush, the Game of Life, the Angel problem, FRACTRAN, his 15-theorem, his 13-function, rational tangles, icosians, lexicodes, the look-and-say sequence, Conway’s soldiers, the free will theorem…

This is a very, very, very sad day.

Read the Guardian’s article John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician.

Thoughts by Jordan Ellenberg, Card Colm Mulcahy, Alex Bellos, Brady Haran (Numberphile), Colin Wright, Michael Stevens (Vsauce).

[doodlingant]

Yeah they were supposed to be one image like this :V

@fishymom-art Allison and Bendy

[some-random-ghost]

The Inkdemonth day 17: Underappreciated

Another title: Dr. Hackenbush inside the Infirmary

I know! He is literally just a name on a schedule in chapter 5 at the moment, but I still like to think of him as a legit character who existed inside the studio (and who needs some more love as well). Hope he does turn out to be a legit and perhaps even an important character later on in Batdr or in the upcoming books!

@halfusek what do you think? Should a Doctor Hackenbush appear inside Batdr or inside dreams come to life and the employee handbook? I would personally be excited about it!

[janmisali]

could you give any advice to figuring out hackenbush as a puzzle game? on that itchio game, i'm completely stuck on level 1-11, i'm always exactly one hack short

in pure blue and red hackenbush, literally any move you can do will always be "bad", in that it's making the state of the game slightly more advantageous for the other player. conway called games like these "numbers", and learning how to do the mental math in your head to convert a hackenbush position into a (sur)real number is an extremely powerful tool to have.

this particular hackenbush position consists of five disconnected parts. (it might look like it's only four, but that second one from the right has two different "roots" that don't interact at all, so it's functionally two different things.) any move you make in any of these subgames will be giving Blue "points", and it is your goal as Red to ensure that you give up as few points as possible.

basically, the faster you can do this in your head,

the better you'll be at hackenbush

[puppygirlarmpitsweat]

she be hacking on my bush till i ⬆️⭐️🌹