PERMUTE 3 REVIEW FULL

This particular game was played on a 12×12 board, which is the standard size available at MindSports. This post is very long, so I will not recap the rules here if you are totally new to the game, please read my previous introductory post and follow-up about the Ai Ai implementation so that you can learn how the game plays, and get yourself set up to play it. In Ai Ai the notation works basically the same, except moves are written with the word Clockwise for clockwise twists and Widdershins for anti-clockwise twists. That’s it! If we note down every move in this way, in proper sequence, we can easily reconstruct a game later for analysis. So our complete move can be written as Cd3e4-d4.

Finally, we add a hyphen for readability, then add the square we chose to bandage, which is d4 in this case (the blue square in the diagram).

Next we add in the square marking the top-right of the twisted face, in this case e4 (the red square in the diagram).

Then we note the square on the board that is in the bottom-left corner of the 2×2 face we twisted, in this case d3 (indicated by the green square in the diagram).

We start by noting the direction of the twist, with a capital C for a clockwise twist, or A for anti-clockwise.

We can translate this move into notation easily:

In this case, Yellow has made a move, rotating a 2×2 face clockwise. This small sample board illustrates how the notation works. Ed van Zon of MindSports came up with a simple notation system that is very easy to learn: In order to record games of Permute and replicate them later, we need some form of notation to keep track of what moves have been played. The game is also viewable on MindSports, if you want to step through it move by move yourself.

PERMUTE 3 REVIEW FULL

Full game - Simon was Orange, I was Yellow.

Permute 3 review