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What other math toys other than the rubix cube have some interesting concepts as a game?

>> No.9572837

rock paper scissors

>> No.9572841

>>9572661
computah games

>> No.9572846

>>9572661
Travian and Dota 2

>> No.9572849

>>9572661
Tetris

>> No.9572854

>>9572661
Go, obviously.

>> No.9572859

call of duty 4 uses category theory

>> No.9572869

Minecraft uses topology

>> No.9572875

gay thread

>> No.9572929

>>9572661
>Rubix

>> No.9573950

OP here.
>>9572846
>>9572854
>>9572846
Neat choices. I almost forgot about go and tetris, though I always assumed RPS was more of a social manipulation game than a game of numbers.

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>>9572661

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>>9572846
>>9572841
>>9572837
>>9572854
>>9572849
>>9573969
>games are toys

>> No.9573983

>>9572661
Dice.
Chess.
Card Games.
Strategy Games.
Origami.

>> No.9573988

>>9573983
>chess
>mathematically elegant

well it has things that move in discreet space, I suppose.

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>> No.9575207

>>9572661
Towers of Hanoi

>> No.9575631

Sudoku

>> No.9575849

>>9572661
If I recall the Rubik's cube was created without the group theory concept being related to it in the mind of the original creator, and the connection only get recognized later and then generalized into different cube configurations.

>> No.9575859

>>9575849
Even so the mechanism is pretty brilliant

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rubik's scissors
>game unrelated

>The General Relevance of the Modified Cosmological Model
MIRROR 1: http://vixra.org/abs/1712.0598
MIRROR 2: http://2occatl.net/1712.0598v2.pdf
MIRROR 3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sXrFZhMo9OjoauL0SgAvpSxD_8qaAYi0/view?usp=sharing

>> No.9575893

>>9575886
thought you were gonna reference the Riemann Zeta Handgun

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>>9573978
>games are interactive immersive art experiences

>> No.9576971

That Dudes game of Life

theres a few pen and paper "board games" that use math.
I think one is called colonies or some shit.
has to do with dots and connecting lines

>> No.9576980

>>9572661
>Toys based on a concept in mathematics
Physics and Engineering are the toys.