Hackenbush
Sign in to savethumb|A starting setup for the game of Hackenbush Hackenbush is a two-player game invented by mathematician John Horton Conway. It may be played on any configuration of line segments connected to one another by their endpoints and to a "ground" line. Other versions of the game use differently colored lines.
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thumb|A starting setup for the game of Hackenbush Hackenbush is a two-player game invented by mathematician John Horton Conway. It may be played on any configuration of line segments connected to one another by their endpoints and to a "ground" line. Other versions of the game use differently colored lines.
==Gameplay== The game starts with the players drawing a "ground" line (conventionally, but not necessarily, a horizontal line at the bottom of the paper or other playing area) and several line segments such that each line segment is connected to the ground, either directly at an endpoint, or indirectly, via a chain of other segments connected by endpoints. Any number of segments may meet at a point and thus there may be multiple paths to ground.