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Re:Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on? by buscoquadnary on Friday August 26, 2022 @06:16PM (#32613378)
Recently I got the game "The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis" for my kids to play on steam since I got young kids and I remember loving that game when I was younger.

The game is amazing, the way it combines fun, learning, and engaging kids without ever feeling like it's a lesson. Seriously my 5 year old now has a basic understanding of set theory because of it.

It feels like educational games peaked in the late 90's and early 2000's and everything since then has been a regression that spends too much time trying to explain things to students rather than letting them discover and explore for themselves.

Re:Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on? by fasthands9 on Friday August 26, 2022 @06:42PM (#32613592)
I loved this as a kid! And also played it for a couple days as an adult recently ha. Even though I don't play much games anymore.

Some of the logic puzzles were actually still very tricky. Was very impressed.