Black Box (game)

Black Box is an abstract board game for one or two players that simulates shooting rays into a closed box to deduce where "atoms" are hidden inside. The game was created by Eric Solomon and published by Waddingtons from the mid-1970s and by Parker Brothers in the late 1970s. It is played on a two-dimensional grid. One player, or a computer or a book in a solitaire game, hides the atoms, and the seeker chooses where each ray enters and is told whether it produced a hit, a reflection or a detour, then deduces the atom positions with as few probes as possible. The game can also be played with pen and paper and has been implemented on many computer platforms. It was inspired by the work of Godfrey Hounsfield, who received the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine for inventing the CAT scanner.