Please identify this game .

[ChinaVoodoo]

 

[deluxestogie]

That's a tough one. Four players, each with an identical number grid and a well for holding or collecting stones of some kind. There are patterns in all the diagonals of the numbers (e.g. the '2' remains '2' through every diagonal; all of the other diagonals appear to be the same, extended, rotating pattern.

But I don't see any mathematical logic to it.

Do you know when or where it was made?

Bob

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

She said she bought it used in Washington state 25 years ago. I lied and said it was a Mormon game and explained the rules as such:

 

[Charly]

I ever never seen this game before.
Good find.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

I wonder if it's Connect Four.

 

[waikikigun]

Can't wait to find out what this is. I can't find any ref to it.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

I was hoping @deluxestogie would know.
Or maybe even @OldDinosaurWesH.

 

[deluxestogie]

I was hoping @deluxestogie would know.
Or maybe even @OldDinosaurWesH.

I spent an hour searching concepts and images, and playing with the number patterns. Fibonacci? Nope. Pascal? Nope. Sums? Nope. Products? Nope. Primes? Nope.

So, do you own this treasure, or is this just "for a friend"?

Bob

EDIT: It might be that IQ test I flunked a few years back. "What will be the next number in this series?"

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

I spent an hour searching concepts and images, and playing with the number patterns. Fibonacci? Nope. Pascal? Nope. Sums? Nope. Products? Nope. Primes? Nope.

So, do you own this treasure, or is this just "for a friend"?

Bob

EDIT: It might be that IQ test I flunked a few years back. "What will be the next number in this series?"

A professor owns it. Knowing her, she might be pulling everyone's leg with it.

I don't think there's any sequence, either. It would only be playable once if it was some sort of magic squares or sudoku type game.

I have this intuition that it's played with dice. Probably two of them, which would explain why there are no 1s on the table.

 

[deluxestogie]

Here's what I get with a copied image from which all metadata was removed, the resolution and size were changed, and the file renamed:

If I also crop that image, I still get 677 results. Pretty impressive image search algorithm.

Bob

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

I tried it with the google reverse image search and got all kinds of red things.

 

[tullius]

This is a hoax: I think la profesora is pulling your leg. I hope I'm wrong.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

This is a hoax: I think la profesora is pulling your leg. I hope I'm wrong.

You are probably right. She has fooled me a number of times.

 

[deluxestogie]

I think there is no question that this is a game. But without knowing the accompanying tools and its rules, it's just a nice piece of antique craft.

Bob