[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Which games do you recommend to improve thin...
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Ask HN: Which games do you recommend to improve thinking and
reasoning?
Computer games, board games, etc. are accepted.
Author : behnamoh
Score : 21 points
Date : 2022-01-12 22:02 UTC (58 minutes ago)
| jolen33 wrote:
| Set
| zagrebian wrote:
| I just started playing "7 billion humans" on Switch. It's like a
| simple programming language. You are given tasks that you have to
| complete by drag-and-dropping statements and commands into the
| code area to form a simple program, and then you run your program
| and observe if it's successful. There's even a debugger button
| for stepping through the code. It's quite entertaining.
| bdz wrote:
| Mahjong. Only playing for a few years but quickly became my
| favorite board game ever (I play japanese riichi). Randomness and
| luck involved but also pattern recognition, reading the opponents
| hand, and of course the multiple strategies involved. There are a
| lot of rules that seems very complicated in the beginning but
| it's not hard to pick up as long as you understand the core
| concept of the game. And there are great video game versions too
| which makes it easier to learn and play if you don't have anyone
| to play with irl.
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| uejfiweun wrote:
| I really like playing "Immersive Sim" games (aka Prey, System
| Shock, Deus Ex, etc) because they generally have really tough
| combat but open ended gameplay. This means you must think very
| carefully about every encounter to come out on top.
| ortusdux wrote:
| Into the Breach - turn based strategy where you know what the AI
| plans to do on their next turn. The same studio made FTL, which I
| also highly recommend.
| dogprez wrote:
| I thought the idea that games can improve thinking and reasoning
| was debunked? Dedicating your life to chess doesn't mean they can
| put you in the general's chair and you'll be a military genius,
| just means you'll be good at chess.
| sandruso wrote:
| Game of thrones board game - fun, negotiation, persuation and
| strategy in one package. There is variaty of strategies how to
| win and each requires interaction between players. The best
| moments were about reasoning why to everybody should ally with
| you instead of others.
| Bromeo wrote:
| One of the most fun board games I've played, but it does take a
| while and requires like five players or so.
| FabioBertone wrote:
| Its grandfather in the boardgames family is Diplomacy, that
| can be played by 2+ people.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_(game)
|
| Be warned, you can ruin friendships with this game
| pacifika wrote:
| Good Sudoku
| nicklaf wrote:
| Any DOS adventure game from the 90s that maliciously threw
| impossible puzzles at you on a whim with no hints.
|
| The Dig is a fun one.
| nvusuvu wrote:
| Boardgames: Hanabi, The Voyages of Marco Polo, Innovation,
| Splendor ( I play all these at boardgamearena.com) Hanabi is
| especially good for logic, deduction.
| anduru_h wrote:
| This might be a captain obvious-type answer...but have you
| thought about Chess?
| daveevad wrote:
| Settlers of Catan taught me not to trust anyone, ever.
| OMGWTF wrote:
| The Witness
| jmcphers wrote:
| Of all the games I've played (which admittedly isn't many), the
| Witness felt the most like an IQ test.
| askafriend wrote:
| Hitman 3 - many many many of ways to complete missions and
| engages creativity in really cool ways while being immersive and
| still fun / free form.
| xsmasher wrote:
| Any Zachtronics game.
|
| "Human Resource Machine" and "7 Billion Humans"
| comprev wrote:
| Portal
|
| The Turing Test
| erezsh wrote:
| Prismata is a little known online card game with very simple
| rules but it's incredibly hard to master.
|
| The community is pretty small, but active enough that you can
| usually find an opponent if you wait a few minutes. (But try to
| beat the computer first, it's hard enough!)
| rurp wrote:
| Project Euler is fun for anyone who likes logic puzzles. I
| enjoyed working on those problems as I was just learning to code,
| and some (maybe many?) can be solved without writing code.
|
| A few friends of mine who don't have any formal math or comp sci
| experience have had fun on the site as well.
| cft wrote:
| Go. Rules are much simpler than chess, but it took computers much
| longer to beat humans.
| rainpl wrote:
| Texas Hold'em
| motohagiography wrote:
| Seconded. Poker is a generally applicable set of life skills,
| imo.
| Bostonian wrote:
| IQ can be reduced through maltreatment, but in general we don't
| know how to increase IQ. Higher IQ people are more likely to play
| chess, but playing chess does not raise IQ. So just play the
| games you enjoy.
|
| "Most people think playing chess makes you 'smarter', but the
| evidence isn't clear on that"
| https://phys.org/news/2019-07-people-chess-smarter-evidence-... .
| RicoElectrico wrote:
| Factorio if you're into engineering planning, or maybe community
| test chambers of Portal 2 for puzzles that can be picked up
| readily.
| jgon wrote:
| I think something like DOTA would be up there, if only because of
| the immense state space that you have the game and the ability to
| use your superior understanding of those options to come out
| ahead of your opponents. Raw mechanics are important at the
| highest levels, but you can get a lot of mileage through "out
| thinking" your opponents in draft, in itemization, and in general
| strategic decisions about what to do, where and when.
| palijer wrote:
| 5d chess with multiverse time travel.
|
| https://www.5dchesswithmultiversetimetravel.com/
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