• mycodesucks@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        If it’s vertically infinite you can never get high enough to put a piece in so the game never starts

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        5 days ago

        True, but that doesn’t affect the win conditions of the game. All this really means is that the game cannot end in a draw and that players can effectively skip their turn at any point.

        EDIT: because you still drop tokens in from the top, a vertical and a horizontally infinite properties would lead to very different strategies. For example, in a vertically Infinite board, a player could not effectively skip their turn as previously described.