Colloquium III
Board Game Studies
Colloquium XVI
BOOK OF ABSTRACTS
University of Azores
LudusAsso iation
Universityof Azores
Organizing Committee:
AldaCarvalho (ISEL,Portugal)
Ana Paula Garrão(University ofAzores, Portugal)
Carlos Santos (ISEC, Portugal)
Jorge Nuno Silva (Universityof Lisbon,Portugal)
Margarida Dias (UniversityofAzores, Portugal)
Ri ardo CunhaTeixeira (Universityof Azores,Portugal)
S ienti Committees:
Re reationalMathemati s Board GameStudies
AldaCarvalho, Portugal Alexde Voogt,USA
Carlos Pereira dosSantos, Portugal Edite Alberto, Portugal
Colin Wright, UK FernandaFrazão, Portugal
David Singmaster,UK Irving Finkel, UK
IldaPerez, Portugal Jorge Nuno Silva,Portugal
JoãoPedroNeto, Portugal Lídia Fernandes, Portugal
Jorge Nuno Silva,Portugal Thierry Depaulis,Fran e
Ri ardo CunhaTeixeira,Portugal Ulri hShädler, Switzerland
Ri hard Nowakowski, Canada
RobinWilson, UK
Re reational Mathemati s is a problemati expression. For some people,
like most professional mathemati ians, Mathemati s is lots of fun; but for
others,like some students, Mathemati s an bea nightmare.
Histori ally, we know that some mathemati al resear h topi s are deeply
linked to puzzles and games, probability theory emerged from the analysis
of han e games,graph theorywasborn whenEulerproved thatyou annot
rossallthe BridgesofKönigsbergjuston e. Manyotherexamples ometo
mind.
Our Colloquium will be a Show and Tell of bright pearls of Mathemati s,
with varied levels of sophisti ation, entertaining many audien es. Itsmain
goal is to foster mathemati al appre iation, an important step if we are to
seeimprovements in its pra ti e.
UniversityofAzoresandLudusAsso iationorganizetheRe reational
Math-emati s ColloquiumIII.
TheInternational So ietyfor Board GameStudies holdsyearly olloquia in
whi hs holars,universityprofessors,museum urators, historians,
ar haeol-ogists, psy hologists, mathemati ians, game inventors, olle tors andothers
share their resear h results on board games. Previous BGS olloquia have
beenheldintheNetherlands,Italy,Switzerland,Spain,Germany,USA,UK,
Brazil,Austria, Portugal, Israel,Fran e, Belgium.
The University of Azores and the Ludus Asso iation organize the Board
GameStudies Colloquium XVI.
Both olloquia will be hostedbythe Universityof Azores.
http://ludi um.org/ev/rm/13
http://ludi um.org/ev/bgs/13
Wednesday, 3rd April, amphitheatre C
8:30 Wel omeand registration
9:15 Opening Session
9:30 Understanding ubi di e development: re ent experimentalresults(RM+BGS)
AlexVoogt,Ameri anMuseumofNaturalHistory
10:30 Countingwith ounters: Gerbert's aba us (RM+BGS)
JorgeNuno Silva,UniversityofLisbon
11:00 Coee-Break
11:30 An update to the multilated hessboard (RM+BGS)
ColinWright,LiverpoolMathemati alSo iety
12:30 Quadratum (RM+BGS)
Helena Melo,UniversityofAzores&CMATI
13:00 Breakforlun h
14:30 Solving dotty problems-an introdu tion to graph theory
Robin Wilson,OpenUniversity
15:30 Mathemati sof so er
AldaCarvalho,ISEL&CEMAPRE/ISEG
16:00 Coee-Break
16:30 The Humble-Ehrhends trianglemistery
JorgeBues u,UniversityofLisbon
17:00 Symmetry groups: identifyingpatterns in Azorean heritage
VeraMoniz,Universityof Azores
17:30 The Golden Ratio -from Eu lid to Almada Negreiros
CarlotaSimões,UniversityofCoimbra
18:30 Break Time
9:30 Piet Hein& the murder of nim(RM+BGS)
ThanePlambe k,Counterwave,in
10:30 What is a good board game? (RM+BGS)
CarlosSantos,ISEC
11:00 Coee-Break
11:30 Three new math-gamesfor experien ingthe interplaybetween
algebra, geometry,and symmetry(RM+BGS)
OliverLabs,UniversitatdesSaarlandes
12:30 An ientegyptian board games: an histori al a ount (RM+BGS)
JoaquimEuri oNogueira,CELC&FCT-UNL
13:00 Breakforlun h
15:00 So ial
Friday, 5th April,amphitheatre C(ex eptthe Opento All sessions)
9:00 Order in the ranks (RM+BGS)
PedroJ.Freitas,UniversityofLisbon
10:00 Coee-Break
10:30 Mathemati al ir us (Open to All)
LudusAsso iation
11:10 Presentationof Mathemati sofPlanet Earth 2013(Open to All)
CarlotaSimões,UniversityofCoimbra,AnaPaulaGarrão,UniversityofAzores
11:20 Presentationof Mathemati sofPlanet Earth 2013(Open to All)
JorgeNuno Silva,JoséFran is oRodrigues,UniversityofLisbon
11:40 Presentationof Mathemati sofPlanet Earth 2013(Open to All)
Ri ardoTeixeira,UniversityofAzores
12:00 Magi show (Open to All)
LennartGreen,WorldChampion lose-up/ ardMagi ian
13:00 Breakforlun h
14:30 Lewis Carroll in Numberland
StephanieCabral,UniversityofAzores
16:00 Coee-Break
16:30 Treason strategies
JoãoCabral,UniversityofAzores
17:00 Jogo doparalelo
RaquelFaria,UniversityofAzores
17:30 Can mathemati al exhibitionsbe re reational?
JoséFran is oRodrigues,UniversityofLisbon
18:00 Contest Um onto que ontas
Helena Melo,UniversityofAzores&CMATI
18:30 Interesting Announ ements (RM+BGS)
JorgeNuno Silva,CarlosSantos,LudusAsso iation
19:30 Conferen eDinner
Saturday, 6th April, amphitheatre C
9:30 Game pro ling(RM+BGS)
Ri hardNowakowski,DalhaousieUniversity
10:30 Why Zermelo'sTheorem is alled Zermelo'sTheorem ? (RM+BGS)
LisaRougetet,UniversityofS ien e andTe hnologyofLille
11:00 Coee-Break
11:30 Vanishingarea puzzles(RM+BGS)
DavidSingmaster,RetiredprofessorofLondonSouthBankUniversity
12:30 Lasker and mathemati s(RM+BGS)
Jurgen Stigter,TWA
13:00 Breakforlun h
14:30 Turning thelights outon graphs
AntónioMa hiavelo,UniversityofOporto
15:30 Combinatorialgames and omputability
AdRidder, UniversityAmsterdam
ometry, andSymmetry(RM+BGS)
Oliver Labs,Universitat desSaarlandes
For the exhibition Forms and Formulas at Lisbon, Portugal, we developed
a game alled Mind Curver in 2012 based on ideas by J.N. Silva, J.
Ro-drigues,A. Matt,and the speaker. The player is slowly introdu ed into the
world ofimpli it equations for plane urves. Thisis a quitenew experien e
formost ofthembe ause su hequationsplayalmostno roleinmanys hool
urri ula. The newapproa h fas inates and fo usses the interplay between
algebra and geometry. For this talk, we extended this game to the third
dimension byletting the player nd the equationof surfa esin spa e.
Inthese ondpartofthetalk,weshortlypresentaworkinprogress: Agame
alled Mandala Designer whi h aims to bring the fas ination of symmetry
also to younger kids of approximately 4-5 years. It allows them to reate
symmetri pi tures themselves. While playing with dierent symmetries,
they may even en ounter the fas ination of divisible numbers before
know-ingthe notion ofdivisionat all.
Order in the ranks(RM+BGS)
Pedro Freitas, Universityof Lisbon
We will dis uss some mathemati al properties of a full order of the de k,
goingba kto17th enturyGasparCardozoSequeira, andsomeoldandnew
magi tri ks than an be done using thisorder.
Jogodo Paralelo(RM)
Raquel Faria, Universityof Azores
João Cabral, University ofAzores
Helena Melo,Universityof Azores
The name of the game is Jogo do Paralelo. This game is played by two
players, using pie es in the form of equilateral triangles. Ea h triangle has
a olored ins ribedtriangle usingthemiddlepointsofthe sidesofthe pie e.
Thepie esmustbepla edside-by-side withthe maingoalofobtainparallel
segments with size two and three with the same olor. This game requires
great on entration, geometri vision and an implementation of a strong
strategi .
GamePro ling (RM+BGS)
