Directory of Sprouts Resources

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Sprouts is a topological pencil-and-paper game invented in 1967 by mathematician John Horton Conway (who also designed the computer game "Life") and Michael S. Paterson, both of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. The game of Sprouts and its joke variant Brussels Sprouts are described in Martin Gardner's book Mathematical Carnival.

Resources in This Category

• Math Forum: Sprouts Notation

  http://mathforum.org/epigone/geometry-research/smingzhermrerd
  Discussion of notation for use in commentary.

• Math Forum: The Game of Sprouts

  http://mathforum.org/epigone/geometry-research/37
  Discussion including a strategy by John Conway.

• World Game of Sprouts Association

  http://www.wgosa.org/
  Association devoted to a serious exploration of the game.

 

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