Rim
This game is taken from the book On Numbers and Games by John Conway (Academic Press, 1976). When this game is combined with ideas from the game of kayles , then you have the game Rayles
What you need
How to play
- To set the game up, draw some dots that are randomly placed on the paper, like this:
- At each turn, a player draws a closed loop that goes through at least one dot and does not meet any other loop. (A closed loop is a line that starts and stops on the same dot and doesn't cross itself anywhere in between.)
- The player who draws the last possible loop loses.
- Here is how a round which starts with the dots above might begin:
