From: bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III)
Newsgroups: rec.games.abstract
Subject: Re: Top Ten Abstract Games
Date: 19 Aug 1997 21:08:04 GMT

>From  article <q4u3gmhr23.fsf@clari.net>, by Don Woods <don@clari.net>:
] 
] The game you're thinking of where you drop beads onto dowels was called
] "Score Four", though there may be other versions with other names.  Score
] Four actually has noticeably different tactics than straight 4x4x4 t-t-t,
] because of the limitation that you can't hang beads in mid-air. :-)  But
] it's definitely in the same "class" as 4x4x4 t-t-t.
] 

One tactic that you see in score four that doesn't show up in 3d tic tac toe
is trying to make it so the other player can't move in columns so that he
will run out of safe moves before you do. When I used to play the game
more, many of the games would end with a player having nothing but bad
(moves that allow the other player to make 4 in a row above his play) moves
to make.
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