Steinar H. Gunderson: Solving the fox game

Christoffer Stjernlöf posted about the Fox Game, an old Norse asymmetric board game (seemingly also called “halatafl”) where twenty sheep try to outsmart two foxes and get to the other side. His AI uncovered some interesting insights, but left the question open as of whether the foxes or the sheep actually win with perfect play (the general sentiment in his family was that winning with the foxes was easy). This was too tempting for me to leave on the table,…

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