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My question is whether or not a deadlock can occur in Crisscross. A deadlock is defined as a position, an arrangement of checkers, in which the board has been filled but neither player has won.

Crisscross

Crisscross

Please either find a legal series of placements which leads to a deadlock, or formulate a proof that a deadlock can never happen.

Incidentally, I would like to thank Retudin for solving the last puzzle I posted. This lead to a revision of the rules of Clearcut which make the game finite.

Clearcut

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  • $\begingroup$ When and where will your game be released? Sounds fun $\endgroup$
    – WOWOW
    Aug 2 at 7:39
  • $\begingroup$ Clearcut is played at Abstract Play $\endgroup$
    – Mark Steere
    Aug 2 at 7:47
  • $\begingroup$ play.abstractplay.com $\endgroup$
    – Mark Steere
    Aug 2 at 7:47
  • $\begingroup$ There's also a discussion forum for Abstract Play discord.gg/ScPfaAyaWJ ...as well as my discussion forum discord.gg/feCAeKxyxD $\endgroup$
    – Mark Steere
    Aug 2 at 7:51
  • $\begingroup$ You've done a great job of avoiding gendered pronouns in your rules (thank you!) but I did notice one "his" in the discussion of Figure 4 of Clearcut. $\endgroup$
    – Greg Martin
    Aug 2 at 22:26

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