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Old August 7th, 2003, 05:31 PM
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I tried doing 9 on paper myself and I couldn't do it. Probably because I did it much the same way I programmed it.
I did it graphically. I set the players up like this :

1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

Then connected them first horizontally, then vertically, then along the diagonals (you have to imagine that the numbers 'wrap around' for the diagonals). To my surprise, this solved it for nine players.
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