Explorations and Thoughts
Explorations and Thoughts
Learn about how you think, and have some fun, too! Below are links to two Java games, complete with a page of discussion to get you to consider why you think in certain ways.
Games to make you think
You're probably familiar with the game Memory, also known as Concentration. What happens when the pictures you have to match sometimes resemble each other? What happens when you have to match more than two pictures at a time? Do you play better when the interface praises your successes, or scolds your mistakes?
You've solved jigsaw puzzles before... but this is much more difficult.
What's going on here?
A mathematical oddity I stumbled upon. Is there a pattern or formula to describe the number of times it takes to rearrange an alphabet of x characters in a particular way so that the end result is identical to the starting point?
Within a 200x200 array of pixels, there is a finite, although huge, number of images that can be created. How can unqiue images inside this space be found?