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Turn mathematical ponderings to citizen science games

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2026-02-27

Map human perception with Apophenia!

Apophenia is like seeing faces in clouds!

This game collects data on how people distinguish true math signal from noise.

In this video, a quadratic is slowly buried under increasing Gaussian noise.

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2026-02-27

Dive into Surf Darts! ๐ŸŒ€

Every hit creates a new, smaller dart board centered on your landing spot. The new dart board is smaller if you hit closer to bullseye.

Play the recursive dart game today on Random Playables: randomplayables.com/

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2026-02-24

Apophenia (the game) is inspired by the math/stat idea of seeing patterns in randomness.

Play it for free now on randomplayables.com ๐ŸŽฎ

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2026-02-21

A "sum-free set" is a collection where no two numbers add up to another one in the set.

๐Ÿ’ก Example: All ODD numbers. Since Odd + Odd = Even, the sum is never in the set!

It sounds simple, but can you capture the right marbles to make it happen? ๐Ÿ”ต๐Ÿ”ด

Play Freesets: freesets.randomplayables.com/

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2026-01-14

Nonparametric bootstrap with pooled resampling: a method in the small sample sizes lit.

Join the npboottprm REPLEXT (Replication & Extension) citizen science project.

Contribute data, code, bug reports

Get involved: mightymetrika.com/citsci

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2026-01-05

Check a project out, contribute where you can!

mightymetrika.com/

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2025-12-18

Play today: randomplayables.com

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2025-12-02

Play today at randomplayables.com!

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2025-11-27

View the actual instructions on GitHub (randomplayables.com keeps a lot of stuff on GitHub so that the game owner can maintain ownership of their own games; rp is so lucky if you choose to host on the platform!).

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2025-11-27

GOWAP has one set of IRL instructions called Chips

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2025-11-27

The black dot on randomplayables.com leads to IRL instructions of the game.

This can help users play variants of the games using paper, pencil, coins, cards, string, and other IRL tools.

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2025-11-26

Play GOWAP (Game of War and Peace) at randomplayables.com. Play in practice (single player) or head-to-head (gauntlet) mode.

Use functions to set the battle landscape then watch the world unfold.

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2025-11-18

At randomplayables.com the red button gets you to the game's source code.

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2025-11-14

I hope you all find some time to ENJOY math this weekend!

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