Paper Soccer — Pitch Classic

Draw a line, one step at a time, and walk the ball up the page into the top goal. Land on any dot that already has a line through it, walls included, and the ball bounces: you move again. Chain bounces together and a single turn can cross the whole pitch. That is the whole game. Born in Polish schoolyards and played in the backs of notebooks long before phones, it is sharper than it looks. PLAY AGAINST AN OPPONENT THAT THINKS The computer searches complete bounce chains — its own and yours. The three difficulties are three amounts of real foresight, not fudge factors: Easy : takes an open goal, otherwise just knocks the ball around. Medium : sees its own chains in full, but only glances at yours. Hard: reads your comeback before it hands you the ball. OR PASS AND PLAY Two players, one device. Blue shoots the top goal, red the bottom, and the loser kicks off the next sheet. TWO SHEETS OF…