In the general forum of LittleGolem.net we had/have
am intensive discussion
on Super-TicTacToe, a meta-game based on the very
traidtional TicTacToe paper and pencil game.
LG-discussion on Super Tic Tac Toe
At some point the exchange of ideas developed an own dynamic:
People started to think about meta-variants of EinStein
würfelt nicht! : Ewn is played simultaneously on
several boards; in each turn the player to move rolls the die.
(S)he sees the outcome and then decides on which of the
boards to play "the" move. The first meta-variant, invented
by Ray Garrison, was with nine
Ewn boards in a 3x3-grid - and TicTacToe rule to get the
meta-winner. The game got the name "NineStein!", by FatPhil.
The second meta-variant was proposed for the Fano board
(with 7 "vertices", each one belonging to three of the
7 "lines"). After some initial confusion we called it
FanoStein.
Here comes a third variant: Ewn simultaneously on three
boards. Winner is who wins at least two of the three boards.
A natural name for the variant is DreiStein.
DreiStein is simpler than NineStein and FanoStein, but
has less random influence than traditional EinStein.
Here comes the very first game of DreiStein, played
online between FatPhil and Ingo Althöfer.
The pictures show the screenshots from Phil's server,
one for each move played.
Thanks to Phil for setting up the server!
Now Phil with his blue stones has won the first game, the one in the lower left. To win the match in total, Ingo will have to win both other boards.
