Archive for ‘Fun & Games’ category

So long, Quarry

2008-08-12

安息吧。

總覺得有點可惜,因為 Quarry 是我見過的棋盤中寫得比較好的(對用家來說,不是裏面的 code),而且可以作為多種棋盤使用。圍棋可以用 gnugo 和人對戰,也可以兩個 gnugo 自己來,更可以人手編輯棋局;蘋果棋(黑白棋)則有 grhino,一樣地使用。

Quarry: screenshot for Go (game start) Quarry: screenshot for Reversi

但我不知為何作者不在網站中聲明自己已經放棄維護它,現在的網站有點誤導,令人以為它還有 0.3 版本。 :-(

2008-08-16 編輯:還以為 Quarry maintainer 沒理我,原來是我的郵件未通過 mailing list,怪不得沒反應。現在網站上已經反映實際情況了。

Another Kakuro strategy: difference of 2 cells

2008-08-09

Last time I have had discussed about using arithmetics to solve kakuro (part 1, part 2); most of the methods are trivial for everybody except the last case which is not apparent. This one is also not apparent as well, and I have almost never encountered it except once. It is about:

Calculating the difference between 2 cells!

How can the difference of 2 cells be helpful? See below for initial configuration:

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八萬五是香港的驕傲!

2008-07-16

這個 video 不得不大力推介。

問:「形容一個人有逃避問題的性格,會用甚麼政策呢?」
答:「八萬五政策。」

香港社會未來的主人翁比我們小時候實在醒目得多了,如果有適當環境學習和生活,將來很有前途,只可惜生於香港。這班頭腦精靈的小孩兒,恐怕回到學校後不知會被多少老師和校長規勸接受再教育,直至洗腦或整死為止,可惜。

我是從這個 blog 找到 video 的,裏面不單是內容的嬉笑怒罵,comment 也不乏好戲看,裏面的保皇黨和左翼份子的針鋒相對,一樣值得搬凳坐睇戲。

陪審團玩數獨

2008-06-16

真是很搞笑,陪審團悶到出此下策,還要是個個一齊玩,然後被法官發覺了,索性整個審訊取消了事。

遊戲的極限

2008-04-04

在讀中學時,有一次負責學校 IT 的老師 (老實說,當時他幾乎不懂 IT 是甚麼) 看到我在電腦室裏開小差,偷偷地在玩接龍,他就告訴我他自己的經驗:為了不讓自己再心思思玩那些小遊戲,他的方法就是不斷拼命地玩,直到有一天覺得厭倦為止,那麼以後即使再怎麼想偷懶,也永遠不會再碰那些遊戲,省下很多時間了。

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Games on … (ahem) … Linux

2008-03-29

Subscribing to HappyPenguin RSS feed might be an error. I just keep reading the same game descriptions over and over (and yawning). Finally, finding myself so bored, I decided to summarize the game descriptions. These patterns should fit more than half of all games listed in Happypenguin:

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My first Scrabble bonus score

2008-03-22

Using all tiles in Scrabble

This is my first time to get the 50 point bonus (despite having played Scrabble since early secondary school day) without any sort of ‘cheating’ — earlier days I have been able to get that bonus, but with great sacrifice — think of a fixed word, keep playing one or two tile everytime, till I get all the tiles I want. Yes, the score isn’t that high (only 84, after counting bonus), but enough to keep me happy for a while.