Blog

Strategy, history, and psychology across the games on this site. That means tic tac toe: the history that runs from ancient Rome to Victorian Britain, the mathematics of why perfect play always ends in a draw, and how people still manage to lose. It also means Terni Lapilli, the Roman predecessor that adds a sliding phase and changes everything about how the game is played. And rock paper scissors, which turns out to be less random than it looks. New posts go up regularly.