Continued lost the last game and last game lost (II) and highly recommended is estricatmente must have read these two parties before proceeding with the final text.
take this opportunity to apologize to the readers who have been outstanding at the end of the story because this has taken longer than acceptable and the only responsibility is mine. =================================================
==================== Unable to find the solution myself, I was forced to enlist the help of others. It is obvious that two heads are better than two, but the team work was something he had ruled out until now by the simple fact of being able to attribute only to me such a discovery.
I started asking permission to see Oriol Comas impressive library of games looking for analogies, but the closest I found was mancala games, the Zuni Indians Awithlaknannai Americans and Mu the Maori toreador. Without going to discuss the regulations based on the true relationship of these games with 53, which could be very controversial, none of the first two I use because it is a game of catch. Only the bullfighter Mu gives the failure to capture gains (but immobilizing the opponent). However, support a relationship between the Mu Torero and 53 would allow historical links between the Eskimos and the Australian Maori, which is more absurd than improbable.
After this failure, I told the story to my friend Jose Bilbao, who for the first time showed an interest such do not let me relax for a moment. There were several testing sessions we had at home. All items of anotábamos, playing on a board where each square was numbered from 1 to 14. Lamanteblemente soon we ran out of ideas and not get up with anything convincing. Only then when we were about to throw in the towel Jose asked, "Why the game is called 53?". And the truth is that I did not know that answer, but both at the same time we realized that it had just opened a new research LIENA. In some games the name is related to its mechanics, the connect-4 for example. More precisely, if until now the name had no connection with any known part of the regulation was necessary estricatemente had it with the only rule that we had to decipher.
had had from the beginning the most important clue before my very eyes and I had not noticed it, but now that she was aware she was so Nervis was unable to think of something. I lost my mind looking at the board 53 in which Jose and I had jugadop many games and was suddenly focused the view that the numbering of the boxes and shouted: "Jose, get a calculator and do the sum of all numbers 1 to 14! What gives? "
Jose took a while to go get a calculator, but a while back with the result: "105!".
"That divided by 2 is 52.5, already have it!", If every square on the board of assigning the value of the numbering of the boxes 1 to 14 when all the board squares are occupied, the values \u200b\u200bof boxes resting on sheets of one and only one player add 53 or more points. Therefore the player thus reach 53 or more points wins the game.
(Note: Now knowing the final condition is easy to solve the following situation: "If a player has no legal moves, will pass duty.")
