That said, while most people play video games by themselves, I can even imagine Understand as a decent cooperative experience (with multiple people sharing hypotheses and one person controlling the mouse), e.g. for couples or group houses. Unfortunately the game is not available on smartphones, which makes this more cumbersome.
I think that an interesting concept would be a multiplayer game in which you create rulesets for friends with certain limits. It could be a competition between several players in which you earn points by passing the level or by creating a level that the other player can’t pass.
The rulesets could be created with simple pre-created rules like “must pass by all circles” or they could be created with a simple python program with limited characters to not make things too complicated. I think I would really enjoy this kind of game, and it could be a chance to practice inductive reasoning with other rationalists.
As mentioned at the top, this video game is inspired by the board game Zendo, which is a bit like what you propose, and which I’ve seen played at rationalist meetups.
Zendo is a game of inductive logic in which one player, the Moderator, creates a secret rule that the rest of the players, try to figure out by building and studying configurations of the game pieces. The first player to correctly guess the rule wins.
For games with similar themes, Wikipedia also suggests the games Eleusis (with standard playing cards) and Penultima (with standard chess pieces).
I think that an interesting concept would be a multiplayer game in which you create rulesets for friends with certain limits. It could be a competition between several players in which you earn points by passing the level or by creating a level that the other player can’t pass.
The rulesets could be created with simple pre-created rules like “must pass by all circles” or they could be created with a simple python program with limited characters to not make things too complicated. I think I would really enjoy this kind of game, and it could be a chance to practice inductive reasoning with other rationalists.
As mentioned at the top, this video game is inspired by the board game Zendo, which is a bit like what you propose, and which I’ve seen played at rationalist meetups.
For games with similar themes, Wikipedia also suggests the games Eleusis (with standard playing cards) and Penultima (with standard chess pieces).