Enlarge / Quantum Go Fish is just one of the many math-y games in Ben Orlin’s latest book, Math Games with Bad Drawings . (credit: Ben Orlin)
Adapted from Math Games with Bad Drawings (2022) by Ben Orlin. You can read our latest interview with Orlin here .
Of the thousand games I encountered in researching my guide Math Games with Bad Drawings , only one of them truly frightened me. It’s a finger game. But trust me: it is the most cognitively taxing finger game that the human race has yet devised—a cross between a logic puzzle, an improv comedy session, and a collective hallucination, played with the strangest deck of cards you’ve ever seen (or not seen). Keep your aspirin at the ready.
How to play
What do you need ? Anywhere from three to eight players. Each begins the game by holding up four fingers. These are the “cards” in the deck.
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