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Check out Spintronics, it's a game/kit for building mechanical analogs for electric circuits. It's coming out sometime this year from the same team that made Tu

• aidos 5y ago
  Has anyone tried Turing Tumble? Would you recommend it? Thinking about getting it for an upcoming bday for one of my kids.
  • 317070 5y ago
    It is nice, and the things you can do are amazing. As an adult I enjoyed playing it. My 9 year old brother found it quickly too hard though.
  • po 5y ago
    I bought it and explained to my kids (7 and 3) that it's "daddy's game" and they can watch me play it but can't play it without me. My 7 year old daughter helped me up through about the first 1/3rd of the game but then quickly it became too hard. It does a good job of introducing concepts slowly but they are in fact hard concepts if you're new to them. It is actually a bit of a challenge for adults too. Mechanically, the game is good but a bit finicky to set each piece in place. That means the time between "I think I know what to do" and testing it out is a bit too long. Overall, I find it pretty fun though. (I also backed the spintronics kickstarter)
• Azrael3000 5y ago
  Thanks for that, this looks indeed like a fantastic educational game (previous discussion [0]). Seems there is a similar game to building "computers" [1] as well. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27222457 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27222457 [1] https://www.turingtumble.com/ https://www.turingtumble.com/