Talk:L game

message: I do have a commercial version. I bought it in the Netherlands some 14 years ago, but I haven't seen it on sale ever since.
The set consists of a flat tin box 140×140×8 mm, with pieces made of plastic sheet embedding a magnetic material, so they stick to the box.
The pieces store conveniently in the box after play.
The bit about lateral thinking and violating assumptions sounds like blurb.
As an abstract game it's not very special, and it can be analyzed and played perfectly even without computer aid: I figured it out 14 years ago.
—Herbee 2004-02-11
Technically, it's correct, the game was actually created to demonstrate lateral thinking. However, whether it actually does manage to demonstrate lateral thinking is another much more questionable issue... Κσυπ Cyp     18:25, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Not exactly.  Examine the 15 possible end positions.  In only 3 of these (last two in the middle row, second to last in the first row) is one of the Ls in the original position, and in none of these three is a neutral piece in a corner position.  So the first player could put the second player in a compromising position where the second player could force themselves to lose by a foolish neutral piece move blocking their L move, but I don't really count that as a first player win. --AaronRosenberg 20:38, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

message: This might not matter at all but attempting to be correct
The photo and diagram showing the start position are actually mirror image of each other's position not the same position. I know game play would be exactly the same but chess mirror imaged would also play the same but is generally considered wrong. Edward de Bono's web site doesn't comment if one is right and the other is wrong but the picture on his site matches the position of the photo here not the diagram; so the pieces look like an "L" not a mirror image of one. I don't know if it's mentioned in the rules with the game of anyone who owns one. If this is so the diagram may need to be flipped. 
It maybe should be mentioned that the mirror image start position is either acceptable, wrong, or simply not mentioned by de Bono but that game play would be the same anyway. Carlwev 01:00, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: (I flipped the image November 2012.) Ihardlythinkso (talk) 05:33, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Starting position(s) 

message: The following is unsourced information:
* The Finnish computer magazine MikroBitti once held a competition about creating a computer version of L game. Readers could write their own computer versions of the game, on Amiga, Atari ST or PC computers, in a programming language of their own choosing, and send them in to the competition. The magazine then ranked them according to presentation, features, skill of computer opponent (if available), and general "fun factor". The winning game was written on the Amiga.
While this is interesting, we can't use it unless you provide a source. Also, none of this is really trivia, as trivia by its definition is "unimportant information" - it therefore shouldn't be in a trivia section but instead the information should be incorporated into the main article. - Tbsdy lives (formerly Ta bu shi da yu) talk 12:27, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced material 

message: Hi, I am a first year Bachelor student and our group is currently doing L-game for our propaedeutic project. We are trying to find an offensive strategy but the literature we found so far has very little information regarding that. Our best approach is to make a move that limits the options of the opponent as much as possible when it's their turn, as mentioned in the article, to occupy 3x3 of the board. Any thoughts on how to place the neutral pieces? Noovil (talk) 14:01, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Offensive strategy