[seqfan] Re: nice new board game puzzle A337663

[hv at crypt.org]

Earlier I wrote:
:Peter Kagey <peterkagey at gmail.com> wrote:
::This is a really lovely sequence. I'd be interested to know more about
::this, such as [...] How many maximal games?
:
:Here's some data on that for k = 2, 3, 4; I'll have it for 5 sometime
:later. Currently working on making runs continuable, so I can start
:a many-day run for n=6 without having to complete it in one go.

a(5) = 49 has 4 solutions; a(6) = 60 has 1 solution.

Hugo
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