Concept information
Preferred term
Life (board game)
Definition
- There are two significant games bearing the name “The Game of Life,” one of which is not really a game at all, but an experiment in cellular automation, while the second is a popular family board game. Conway's The Game of Life is named for its inventor, mathematician John Horton Conway, and was presented in the October 1970 issue of Scientific American. [Source: Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society; Life]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Life_(board_game)
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