The intriguing game of Gomoku - an isolation activity

[@Ozmodiar6]

4:11 rob noticed deane messed up by not taking 4 in a row, but let him win for the sake of the demonstration. Haha.

[@madsnoop7]

Thanks Rob ,Thanks Deane Most underrated KZbin chanel.

[@PatClevenger0709]

This would have been a nice idea to have watched last March.

[@bland9876]

My family had a box with colors half spheres and the box said Penta Stones on it. Also it has a card board squar just like Monopoly or Clue would and it had the lines predrawn on there.

[@bland9876]

Oh Penta Stones I remember that game. That was one my family didn't play much but we did use the stones to mark stuff like hit point in other games.

[@godzillafan4033]

I used to play this when I was younger. It was just called Go. And was sold in toy stores with a nicely made wooden board and two sets of glass pucks. It's a lot of fun and is deceptively complex.

[@marks6928]

I believe that Go is actually a slightly different (but related) game. In Go you can capture territories and your opponent’s pieces by surrounding them. It’s one of the oldest board games around. Gomoku, the game shown here, uses the same board and same pieces as Go, but different rules. Of course, that’s not to say the version that you played when you were younger wasn’t actually a version of Gomoku 🙂 I find these historical games fascinating so always nice to hear about more

[@godzillafan4033]

@@marks6928 You know what, your right. It was probably 40 years ago when I played

[@marks6928]

@@godzillafan4033 ahh glad to be of service 🙂 in replying to this, I looked up a bit about Go. The game is so complex in terms of strategy that it’s estimated there’s more possible board combinations than there are atoms in the observable universe. That’s pretty cool! Have a good one 🙂

[@greg55666]

19x19--they're playing GO?! Cool!

[@ChandrasegaranNarasimhan]

A more interesting variation would be to score 2 3 4 or 5 with gaps and different scoring for different gaps.

[@somakun1806]

Go has to be one of the most complex games. Much much complex than chess. If you're interested there's a documentary on Gooogles AI alpha go vs world's best Go player. It's worth a watch

[@tensairsf]

Although it has a similar board and pieces, this isn't Go, but Gomoku. Its rules are more similar to tic tac toes than Go.

[@FokkeWulfe]

If you like games like this, I highly recommend Othello. You start with a near empty grid, with 4 pieces 2 white 2 black set in a square, with each color on a diagonal in the center. Each player takes turns setting a piece. If you have, say a piece of your color at the end of a string of the opposing color, and you place another of your color piece at the other end of that string, you can flip every piece in between to your color IE: Have: B W W W Place: B W W W B Becomes: B B B B B It's a very fun game. Never seen my mother loose.

[@nancekumar]

Yes, I love Othello. I've been playing it with my son for many years. He had got it as a birthday gift. Very enjoyable game for 2.

[@Herandezbrothers]

I’ve played this game but we “made it up” during boring class in school lol, we used grid paper and 2 different colored pens.

[@bland9876]

All I know is that I've heard it called by another name as well as the one you used and even though I neglected my virtual pet to play it I could never beat the computer. Oh yeah there's another game similar to this one where you have a hexagonal grid and in the corners are your pieces you have two and the other player has two and then you can either copy yourself one space or jump two spaces. If your color is touching the enemy color all pieces touching your color change to your color at the end of your turn.

[@FokkeWulfe]

@@bland9876 Sounds like Othello. There is another name for it, I can't remember it though. Same basic game, as far as I know.

[@donknotts5625]

Great show

[@BazzFromOz]

Since the subject for groups of animals came up, here's a few more interesting animal group names... Crows = Murder Ladybugs = Loveliness Rhinoceroses = Crash Apes = Shrewdness Skunks = Stench Since I'm an Australian I must also add; Kangaroos = Mob, Troop or Court Koalas = Cling

[@TheKnobCalledTone.]

Hedgehogs = Array

[@Alabaster_Joness]

Dermatologists = Rash

[@winkstack6410]

A loveliness of ladybugs, that’s amazing

[@CorelUser]

Politicians = infestation

[@8Biit]

oooOOOooo 😳 i wanna play!!!

[@SuperMewKittyKatGaming]

deane so concentrated

[@jaymo3205]

0) Elephant 1) Dog 2) Semen 3) Birds 4) Beehive 5) Puppy-Pie

[@michaelkeller5008]

Interesting game...

[@SnakeZoel]

I need that sweater

[@SaturnCanuck]

Great game. I must say though that the original game in Canada is Tic-Tac-Toe

[@dickJohnsonpeter]

Same as here inAmerica.

[@GrndAdmiralThrawn]

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

[@RoyArrowood]

"Naughts and crosses" that's interesting. We call it tic tac toe in The States. Also interesting that your first "Tie" or a cat's game as we call it ended in a symmetrical pattern. I wonder what percentage of games end with symmetry?

[@RoyArrowood]

Oh we also play the four row version but if you get 4 in a square that's a win too

[@nancekumar]

We also call the game X and zero.

[@GrndAdmiralThrawn]

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

[@Bibibosh]

Amazing. However the 19x19 can translate into 18x18 if you place icons inside of the square as opposed to the video. Thank you you well come to zz tops. Thanks

[@em.1633]

Hi Rob, there is a horrible horrible high pitched squeal in this video - bad enough where you genuinely ought to fix and reupload it. I can help with that if needed as it's what I have expertise in.

[@CuriosityShow]

Thanks - we get reports of that sometimes but there is nothing there at this end - it seems to be a mismatch of technologies somewhere

[@em.1633]

@@CuriosityShow Thanks for the response! In fact it is definitely there for sure, it simply a matter of our ability to hear high frequencies versus age :) Not to call you old! It's just likely you physically cannot hear it as it is out of range for you. If you like I can convert the video to spectrogram and show you it visually. Here, check out this very popular video by Tom Scott where he had the exact same problem and explained his realization he couldn't hear it, the same way I'm trying to describe kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHKYhpyCjryXmK8

[@YoutubeCommenter7402]

@@em.1633 It seems I am not able to hear the high pitch squeal, I'm only 41. The high pitch squeal isn't the hiss in the background right? That hiss is from the recording technology used back in the late 1900's which is when this show aired in Australia the first time.

[@em.1633]

@@KZbinCommenter7402 The tones are at 15.5kHz and 15.8kHz. For reference, at 40 your max hearing range is down to 15.0kHz, and will decrease down to 12.0kHz by age 50.

[@Alabaster_Joness]

Gbye

[@rexrodecolt]

Interesting

[@editbalazs349]

Interesting show... :)

[@CuriosityShow]

Thanks. Curiosity Show was a national science program featuring Dr Rob Morrison and Dr Deane Hutton. It was made in Adelaide, South Australia and screened nationally in Australia as well as in Europe, Asia and Australasia (14 countries and dubbed in German for Europe) from 1972-1990. Deane and Rob intentionally used everyday items around the house (like old rusty cans) so that people could repeat the demonstrations with materials they had to hand. In 1984 Curiosity Show won the Prix Jeunesse International, the world's top award for TV programs for young people. Rob and Deane are steadily uploading segments at kzbin.info Why not subscribe?

[@elbee2324]

You could just use a Go board, which this game is based on, if you have one already, to save you drawing up the lines. ;-)

[@Durfit]

Good bye!

[@milanmilin3776]

It's originally a Chinese game...

[@Maninawig]

Wow, so much to unpack! Did not know about the 3 lined naughts and crosses or the 3 dimensional one (though it could be that I call it Tick-Tack-Toe. Also, a group of 3 black birds is not called a flock, but a murder. Now onto the game: this sounds like a lot of fun. Good for keeping your hands busy over long conversations

[@marks6928]

The collective noun depends on the bird species. It’s not simply all “black birds” that are called “a murder”. A group of crows is called a “murder”. A group of rooks (also black birds) is called a “parliament” or a “clamour”, and a group of ravens (again, black birds) a “conspiracy” or an “unkindness”. (Both ravens and rooks have multiple collective nouns, and more besides the ones I’ve listed here).

[@Maninawig]

@@marks6928 oh, I thought all cordavae were called murders.

[@marks6928]

@@Maninawig Nope :)

[@robertdale8758]

I'm curious about cutting solid human waste into potato chips most people eat more than one and say things like the taste is familiar or these chips taste like poo.

[@flynnisterreality4393]

tic tac toe for gods sake