The Fish Soup Game

Fish Soup

This is a two person game. You play against your computer. The board consists of a row of nine squares with a 4-letter word in each. Players take turns selecting words. The goal of the game is to select three words that share a common letter.

If the box "I move first" is checked, you have to click the "So, go!" button which will cause the computer to make the first move. Computer selections appear in red, yours in blue.

The cards you select turn blue; the computer selections turn red.

This applet requires Sun's Java VM 2 which your browser may perceive as a popup. Which it is not. If you want to see the applet work, visit Sun's website at https://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp, download and install Java VM and enjoy the applet.

What if applet does not run?

The secret

The secret is very simple. Look at the arrangement of the words above. This is another incarnation of TicTacToe. For example, letter "I" is shared by all words in the first column, letter "R" by all words in the second row. Words on the diagonals share letters "H" and "N", etc.

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