From: "Eric I." <rubytraining@...>
Date: 2007-04-16T05:40:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Magic Fingers (#120) [solution]

On Apr 15, 3:49 pm, James Edward Gray II <j...@grayproductions.net>
wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2007, at 9:00 AM, Eric I. wrote:
>
> > Note that the initial state, where all hands have one finger, does not
> > have a guaranteed win by either player.  So if both players play
> > perfectly, the game will never end.
>
> Wikipedia disagrees with this, which likely just means that I botched  
> my explanation of the rules somehow.  I'm see if I can figure out  
> what I changed...
>
> James Edward Gray II

I just read the Wikipedia description as a result of reading your
comment.  And as I read through the rules there, one difference did
jump out at me.  The rules disallow a clap where you start out with 3
on left and 1 on right and end up with 1 on left and three on right.
My code does not disallow that.

So that's one possibility.  The other is that I made some other
mistake (which shouldn't be rules out!).  But I'll try adding that
aspect to the rules and re-run.

Eric