Over Thanksgiving weekend I was introduced to a new game: SpotIt. The object of the game is to find a matching symbol between two cards. Each card has 8 symbols and there is only 1 match between any two cards.
The game was a lot of fun, but I got to thinking afterwards, "How can there be only 1 match between any two cards?" So I brought up my trusty friend Excel and started looking for patterns (starting with small patterns like 2 symbols/card, 3 symbols/card, etc). It wasn't long before I had discerned what I needed to translate the pattern into math.
Attached is the result. You can set the # of symbols/card and see what picture # is in symbol spot A, symbol spot B, etc for any given card. And yes, there is only 1 match between any two cards. To keep the file size low I limited the # of symbols/card to a maximum of 10, though it could have gone much higher since its all formulas.
Enjoy!
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