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the similar but easier game "spot it!" works better for playing with kids, i find. (i prefer it as an adult too - i thought i'd love set, but playing it feels m
by zem 10y ago
the similar but easier game "spot it!" works better for playing with kids, i find. (i prefer it as an adult too - i thought i'd love set, but playing it feels more like work than fun to me.)
- dkurth 10y agoThere's some interesting analysis of the math behind Spot It! on stackoverflow [1]. That post mentions the Fano Plane, which, incidentally, I first read about in the book How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician quoted in the article about Set that started this thread. In the book, he uses the Fano Plane to explain how to pick numbers for a specific kind of lottery. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6240113/what-are-the-mathematical-computational-principles-behind-this-game http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6240113/what-are-the-math...
- zem 10y agothanks, that was a beautiful thread! also a really good diagram explaining the projective plane.