From our PoW archives: A Game from West Africa This game is played by the Asante people of Ghana, West Africa, on a game board like a graph with 9 vertices and 16 edges. Two players, each with four markers, take turns placing their pieces on the vertices or the intersections of the edges, trying to get three in a row. If the game is a draw, the players take turns sliding a piece to an empty intersection along the lines. The winner is the first person who makes three in a row. How many ways are there to make three in a row? Does either player have an advantage? Describe in detail the reason. Give an example of the moves and strategies in a winning game. Give an example of the moves and strategies in a winning game after a draw. Would you like to see our PoW Library of Discrete Math Problems? or go on to how to search

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