A Piece of the Pi: mathematics explained

A Piece of the Pi: mathematics explained

“Lights Out” on a triangular grid

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Richard Green
Mar 22, 2026
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Lights Out is a game that can be played on an equilateral triangular grid of buttons, each of which may be in a lit or unlit state. A move in the game consists of pressing one of the buttons. The effect of this move is to toggle the state of the button that was pressed, as well as toggling the states of all the buttons touching the button that was press…

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