Eleusis is a shedding-type card game in which one player secretly chooses a rule that decides which cards may be played on top of which, and the remaining players try to work out that rule by inductive reasoning from the plays that are accepted or refused. Robert Abbott invented it in 1956, and Martin Gardner first published it in his Mathematical Games column in Scientific American in June 1959, with a revised version in his July 1977 column. It is sometimes seen as an analogy to scientific method, and it can be compared with Mao, Penultima and the commercial game Zendo.
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Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Player CountLarge Group or Variable 1 Sport
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The game was invented by Robert Abbott in 1956
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Eleusis is a shedding-type card game
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3-8 (best with 4 or 5)
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