Consensus Board Game

Consensus Board Game Mar 19, 2026 I have an early adulthood trauma from struggling to understand consensus amidst a myriad of poor explanations. I am overcompensating for that by adding my own attempts to the fray. Today, I want to draw a series of pictures which could be helpful. You can see this post as a set of missing illustrations for Notes on Paxos, or, alternatively, you can view that post as a more formal narrative counter-part for the present one. The idea comes from my mathematics of consensus lecture, with versions in English and Russian. The Preamble I am going to aggressively hand wave the details away, please refer to Notes for filling in the blanks. And, before we begin, I want to stress again that here I am focusing strictly on the mathematics behind the algorithm, on the logical structure of the universe that makes some things impossible, and others doable. Consensus is but a small part of the engineering behind real data management systems, and I might do something…