Einstein does not roll the dice
Einstein does not roll the dice! is the official companion game of a traveling exhibition for the Einstein year "God does not throw the dice: Science in play - game in science", which started in July 2005 in Göttingen . The game was the Jena Mathematics - Professor Ingo Althöfer designed.
The name of the game has a double meaning:
- On the one hand, you no longer have to roll the dice in the game if you only have one stone left. (see rules )
- On the other hand, he refers to Albert Einstein's now famous statement that “the old man” (meaning a kind of god or nature) does not roll the dice. Einstein rejected the stochastic explanations of quantum mechanics . This rejection did not prevail, however, and only "Einstein does not roll the dice".
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The 2-player game is played on a square board with 5 × 5 fields. Each player has six numbered stones that are placed on the board as shown in the illustration. Within these limits, players are free to choose how to arrange the stones.
The players take turns rolling the dice. The piece with the number that was rolled must be moved one space. You can't sit out. The red player can move the stone either down, to the right or diagonally to the bottom right, the blue player accordingly up, left or diagonally up-left. Both your own and your opponent's stones can be captured if they are on the target field.
If a player no longer has the piece with the number rolled, he has the choice of moving the next larger or the next smaller piece. If, on the other hand, he no longer has a larger one, but only a smaller one, he has to move the next smaller one, and if he only has larger ones, then he draws the next larger one accordingly. If he only has one stone left, he no longer needs to roll the dice, because he has to move this stone anyway.
The winner is the player who moves one of his own stones to the opposite corner or captures all of the opposing stones.
There are variants of the game for 3 and 4 players. These are played on boards with 6 × 6 fields. In the 4-player version ( EinStein does not roll Quattro ) two players form a team. A team has won if one of the players has reached the corner square on the opposite side. A team has lost if one of the players has lost all of their stones. If both happen at the same time (corner field reached and partner eliminated), it counts as a team victory. A distinction is made between two variants of the seating arrangement: With one, the players of a team sit diagonally across from each other, with the other ( longline ) they sit next to each other. In the 3-player version, one player wants to reach his opposite corner while the two opponents as a team try to prevent him from doing so. The opposing team has no other goal than to destroy the individual player.
The game has been implemented for Apple iOS since May 2015 . The app calculates an Elo rating for the human player. The computer opponents programmed by Christian Donninger can be selected according to their rating.
strategy
The fewer stones you have, the more “mobile” they are, as they can be addressed by more dice results. Therefore, it can make sense to hit your own stones in a targeted manner in order to be able to make the best move with a higher probability . Hitting one's own piece 3 or 4 is preferable to hitting a 1 or 6, since in the endgame a player with a 1 and 6 can move one of the two on a throw between 2 and 5, while the player with a 3 and 4 only ever has one stone to choose from.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ EinStein does not roll the dice! on the App Store on iTunes
- ↑ EinStein does not roll the dice! - jakob.at
