Talk:L game
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I do have a commercial version. I bought it in the Netherlands some 14 years ago, but I haven't seen it on sale ever since. The set consists of a flat tin box 140×140×8 mm, with pieces made of plastic sheet embedding a magnetic material, so they stick to the box. The pieces store conveniently in the box after play.
The bit about lateral thinking and violating assumptions sounds like blurb. As an abstract game it's not very special, and it can be analyzed and played perfectly even without computer aid: I figured it out 14 years ago.
—Herbee 2004-02-11
Technically, it's correct, the game was actually created to demonstrate lateral thinking. However, whether it actually does manage to demonstrate lateral thinking is another much more questionable issue... Κσυπ Cyp 18:25, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)
After all this, now I wonder. Do you mean that inventing the game is intended to demonstrate lateral thinking by DeBono? Or that successfully playing the game requires lateral thinking on the players' part?
—Herbee 2004-02-13
As far as I remember hearing from years ago, the game was designed to require lateral thinking to play well. Not sure if I read it somewhere, or was told it. I remember there were cardboard L-game pieces included with some book. (Considering that it's trivial to write a program that shows that memorizing a few positions is sufficient to force a draw, I'm not completely sure the goal was met, though.) Κσυπ Cyp 17:21, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)
The game was designed to require lateral thinking to play well, and to develop lateral thinking skills in the learning player. See de Bono's "The Five-Day Course in Thinking" (1968) 81.86.148.191 20:01, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
When I wrote a computer adaption of the L game, I remember finding out that if the players were allowed to move the neutral pieces on their first move, it was possible for the starting player to win on his/her first move, without the opponent ever getting the chance to make a move. Do I remember this right? — JIP | Talk 13:00, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
