For me, attempting feats of memory doesn't appeal, for some reason, but attempting feats of estimation does. —Dan Brent Meeker wrote:

Or there could be a game that required you to quickly recognize and remember the numbered order of squares on a  screen.

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/04/16/302943533/the-ultimate-anim...

Or maybe not.

Brent

On 8/2/2018 7:33 PM, Dan Asimov wrote:

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I've been thinking it might be fun to have a computer graphics game that challenges you to guess the number of items on the screen quickly.

With feedback, I wonder how proficient one can become at that. Say they are all just circular dots.

Likewise there could be a program challenging you to guess the ratio of lengths of two curves or areas of two shapes on the screen.

—Dan

Rich Schroeppel wrote: ----- A splatter of even 25 toothpicks is likely to contain ambiguities, where, because of overlaps, the image is insufficient to distinguish each toothpick. -----

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