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My math homework is to do a research project on a math game. Would you please suggest some math game(s) you enjoy?

Doesn't matter what type of game it is, as long as it demonstrates an element of math?

I find that game not to be very math based. And besides, right on the assignment sheet it says: "NO SUDOKUS!" lol (because we've been doing them in class)

If you can get your hands on xemacs there's a long division game plug in built in that's been fun. Letters replace numbers and you have to figure out what each of the letters represents.

Based on a quick look at the xemacs standard packages (http://www.cygwin.com/packages/xemac...o-2005-05-05-1) I believe it alligns with the following packages.

Wed Jan 14 06:30:54 1998 14889 usr/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/misc-games/mpuz.el
Wed Apr 6 22:32:43 2005 9860 usr/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/misc-games/mpuz.elc

Sorry I can't provide a less cryptic answer, but it is a rather challenging math based game, that I used to do with pen and paper, but I'm having a tough time finding the words to explain it.

-MBirchmeier

Note: xemacs should be relatively easy to download for linux, I dunno about a windows port though, but I doubt it would be hard to find.

Does that count as a math game? Looks more like a type of puzzle to me. I'll think about it.

Ooh, new emotion! :banana: lol

24 game - give some numbers (usually four, and usually between 1 and 9) you have you make 24 (usually only using +, - * and /)

        7

2                2

        2

Sideways maths - replace each letter with a digit to make the sum true. The same letter must become the same digit, and no two different letters can change to the same digit.

   ELF

+  ELF

= FOOL

Oh well, I finished it with something I found pretty cool. Learned something (in school! oh mai god! O_O!!).

Quote:

Aaron Voelker

THE ECOSIAN GAME

The Ecosian Game was made by the famous mathematician, Hamilton, in 1859.

The game board is created in the shape of a dodecahedron (12 pentagonal faces organized three dimensionally). And then flattened in to a two dimensional image of its vertices and edges. The transformation is like so:

http://whistleralley.com/polyhedra/dodec01.gif
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/images/...lGraph_700.gif

The objective of the game is to make a �hamiltonian circuit� (named after the creator) around the dodecahedron. This means you must move to adjacent verticies, touching the same one no more then once. And then end where you started.

One of the goals can be to solve it on the 3d dodecahedron. Once you have this 3d skeleton, you can solve the puzzle from any starting point on the dodecahedron. If you manage to create this 3d graph, you will notice it makes a very logical pattern.

Another objective can be to not use the skeleton, and ask someone to make you solve it from a specific starting point in a certain amount of tries.

This game has been later reconfigured to many other three dimensional shapes including the rhombic dodecahedron and polyhedral. They are frequently manufactured and sold in both of the two and three dimensional layouts.

I like it. :) Thanks for the suggestions.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Klipt

24 game - give some numbers (usually four, and usually between 1 and 9) you have you make 24 (usually only using +, - * and /)

        7

2                2

        2

I can't believe I forgot about 24... even had contests for that in middle school (placed 3rd in state =D) Additionally once you master 24 take two sets of three numbers, and figure out which number is used in both to make 24.
example:

4 2 6
8 2 8

2 is (a possible) number:
4 2 6 [2] become : (2 + 4 + 6) * 2
and
8 2 8 [2] become : (8 - 2) * (8 / 2)

-MBirchmeier

I'm :( sorry I didn't seee this thread earlyer. But if anybody else is interested in a math game I would recomend LifeGen. But I'm not a 100% sure it counts as a math game becouse it's more of an animation. You can find more info abuot it here.

I myself made a simpeler version for my programming class (C programming language) and it was qouit fun aldo it took a while. Later on I tride making a Minesweepre game (which works kind of slow in some cases but other than that it's farlly OK(except that it's presented in a CommandPromopt window)). But that is probbabely wouldn't count as a math game.