The Hardest Easy Game

Play The LGame: Edward de Bono is a lot of things an author, an economic theorist, a physician but hes also a thinker about thinking. His 1967 book The FiveDay Course in Thinking included a game thats one of the hardest in the world, yet also one of the simplest. The idea behind creating the perfectly simple, perfectly impossible exercise that turned into The LGame was to distill a 2player experience down to a constant churn of critical strategic decisions. By limiting the board to just 16 spaces with 2 Lshaped tetrominoes and 2 neutral pieces, the board cant distract from the core task. And with so few rules really, just that you need to move your L piece to an open space and then optionally move one of the neutrals the focus is purely on thinking several moves in advance. That level of abstraction is way, way harder than it seems. But by using experience to identify and organize some strategic guiding principles to moving in th