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Constellations
Play on the World's Largest Computer Screen Noughts and crosses is a simple game and soon everyone wanted bigger and better games - so Constellations was invented ( as space-age O's and X's ), almost by the students themselves, using the famous bigger magic number grid. Constellations is a game played on a 4x4 grid just like the 16 window grid on the south face of the Grenfell Tower. Like O's and X's, rows, columns and diagonals are winning patterns but so are sets of four positions in corners, centre of the grid and many others. Students soon found 86 patterns of four numbers in the number list 1 to 16 which added to the magic number of 34. Like ancient people of long ago, students also discovered shapes and patterns and they invented stories about the shapes they saw. Those star pattern shapes were "Constellations" and these are the patterns flashing on the World's Biggest Computer Screen made here in Adelaide - Mathematics! Shape and numbers can be fun! The game on the side of the Grenfell Tower is only O's and X's made bigger.
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