| Game: Game of Life |
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Invented by John Conway, 1970
Implemented by Robert Price, 2002-03-02
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7 variants
Educational
Solitaire
Classic
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This is a Zillions implementation of John Conway's famous Game of Life. There are a variety of board sizes available. Patience should be exercized when loading and starting a pattern on a large board.
Rules:
- Each cell is either dead or alive during each turn (generation).
- A dead cell with exactly three live neighbors becomes live (birth).
- A live cell with exactly two or three live neighbors remains live (survival).
- A live cell with fewer than two or more than three neighbors dies (isolation, overcrowding).
Use the computer opponent think time to regulate the delay between generations. Or, use a `No Delay` variant to generate as quickly as possible.
Use the right-click menu to set up a pattern or load one from a .zsg file. Hit the "Pass" button to start creating the generations.
The Game of Life was invented by the mathematician John Conway in 1970. He chose the rules carefully after trying many other possibilities, some causing the cells to die too fast and others causing too many to be born. He first played the game by hand on a Go board. His early discoveries were publicized by Martin Gardner in a series of Scientific American columns. |
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