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a [[game]].
- not to be confused with [[braid]] — which is amazing by the way.
- Braids is a solitaire/coop game I think I may have invented :)
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It goes like this:
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you [[count]], from zero up.
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I do this while meditating, but that’s optional, I guess.
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unless we’re always meditating?
- or we’re entities programmed to do so.
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as you count, you visualize the [[number]].
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I do a version of [[box breathing]].
- It helps me reach [[samatha]].
- as I [[breathe in]], I count [[up]] the side of a square 👆
- as I hold, I traverse a lateral edge ▶
- as I [[breathe out]], I try to [[factorize]] the number if I want and I [[go down]] 👇
- as I am yet not breathing in, I optionally rest as I [[go left]] ◀️
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I start at [[0]] and move up according to three default rules:
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increase the number by one
- so after [[1]] comes [[2]]
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increase one of its [[factors]] by one and multiply
- this is equivalent to the above for a [[prime]], it reduces to the rule above
- the choice can be made to encode a number by convention, like order
- extra rules can be agreed and numbered
- a braid is what players achieve by counting up to a certain number through different paths
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player 0
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
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4
- 5
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6
- 7
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8
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9
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10
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12
- 13
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14
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15
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16
- [[17]]
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18
- 19
- player 1
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 2 2
- 5
- 6
- 2 3
- 7
- 8
- 2 2 2
- 9
- 3 3
- 10
- 2 5
- 12
- 2 2 3
- 13
- 14
- 2 7
- 15
- 3 5
- 3 6
- 18
- 2 3 3
- 19