A board game MEPhI students played in the 1970s, which my father drew on a sheet of drawing paper in the 90s — now recreated in Rust: a square 72-cell board, Moons, Prisons, ransoms, teams, a TD(λ) self-play AI, and a Leptos+Tauri GUI. Playable at sheshbesh.gitcommitsuicide.com.
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