The Game of Mentula

Libor Behounek, 1999--2000

Table of Contents

• I. Introduction
  • I.1 What is Mentula?
  • I.2 Origin of the Game
  • I.3 Sources of Information
  • I.4 Rules
• II. Tactics and Strategy
  • II.1 Loss of Pieces
  • II.2 Figure of Pieces
  • II.3 Sheltering
  • II.4 Sleiching
  • II.5 Coalitions
• III. Non-standard Boards
  • III.1 Board Requirements
  • III.2 Locally Euclidean Boards
  • III.3 Multidimensional Boards
  • III.4 Polytopes
  • III.5 Edges of Tessellations
  • III.6 Other Boards
• IV. Mathematical Properties of the Game
  • IV.1 Domatizable Figures
  • IV.2 Survey on Properties of Non-Standard Boards
  • IV.3 Properties of the Four-Dimensional Torus 3^4

E-mail for comments and questions: behounek@ff.cuni.cz
Created: 28-Aug-1999 to 16-Oct-2000.
Last change: 25-Nov-2003.