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Euclidea – Geometric construction game with straightedge and compass

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Re: Euclidea – Geometric construction game with straightedge and compass

#11

This is brilliant! What I really want is a list of such mathy games for my 6 year old. I found him a logic gates (XOR, AND, etc) game that he also likes.

I know of two other mathy game apps: Torus games (games like tic tac toe on a torus, Klein bottle etc.) and Pythagorea (which is about geometry)

Re: Euclidea – Geometric construction game with straightedge and compass

#14

This is brilliant! What I really want is a list of such mathy games for my 6 year old. I found him a logic gates (XOR, AND, etc) game that he also likes.

What’s the logic game? I’d also love to find more games like these for my kids (they love playing with Euclidea, but it’s too abstract for them to grasp).

Another one they do manage to understand (and love) is Lightbot http://lightbot.com

Re: Euclidea – Geometric construction game with straightedge and compass

#15
Constructing '1.2 Perpendicular Bisector', I got stuck trying to use the hot key T. I switched to 'explore mode' to see the hint and realized I could complete the task using a compass. Then, on the next screen I 'discovered the Perpendicular Bisector tool'. Maybe greying out the different tools at the bottom would make the locked tool more apparent during the tutorial--I almost abandoned the site, but stubbornness compelled me to try again. hehe.

Re: Euclidea – Geometric construction game with straightedge and compass

#17
post #14

This is brilliant! What I really want is a list of such mathy games for my 6 year old. I found him a logic gates (XOR, AND, etc) game that he also likes.

What’s the logic game? I’d also love to find more games like these for my kids (they love playing with Euclidea, but it’s too abstract for them to grasp). Another one they do manage to understand (and love) is Lightbot http://lightbot.com

Circuit Scramble

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Suborbital...

It's so good I managed to do all 135 puzzles in two days and another few hundred generated ones.

The generator might need some work. A lot of the ones it makes are too simple, solvable in 1 or two moves.

Re: Euclidea – Geometric construction game with straightedge and compass

#18

Is the source code for this game available somewhere to look at?

It's not open source from the looks of it. It's a freemium game, they have in-app purchases on mobile where you can unlock all levels without completing the previous ones. Some of those levels are insanely difficult, so you have to either lookup the solutions online or pay for unlocking, otherwise it's pretty much impossible to advance.
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