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After a few tries my high score is 0x13 :D Of course, I'm about to try again. (really needs a shorter URL too. too bad flippybit.com is taken.)
My next game was a much more respectable 25.
After a few tries my high score is 0x13 :D Of course, I'm about to try again. (really needs a shorter URL too. too bad flippybit.com is taken.)
My first game was 1 point. I tried clicking on the falling bugs and saw some numbers lighting up, but I didn't quite realize I had to click on the numbers at the bottom to 'prep' rockets. My next game was a much more respectable 25.
So I assume this is an April Fools? Not sure, and I hate expanding efforts on filtering April Fools. Tried the game, it's nice. Got 1 point on my first try, somehow managed 15 points on the second. I don't think a baby would get any points, so I'll go with April Fools.
I'm betting it isn't actually.
The thing is, this isn't that difficult of a task. The disadvantage adults have in a task like this is, I believe without scientific evidence, the learned helplessness that so many adults have, probably induced from years of "education". A three year old flips through an iPad interface because nobody even thought to tell them it was hard; an adult that can't pick that up probably can't pick it up because they believe they can't pick it up.
In this case, there's 16 whole patterns to learn, and the patterns themselves are highly patterned so it's even easier than that. It's well within what a very young child can do. It's far easier than walking or speaking in sentences, those tasks that many two years olds already do better than our best AIs. (Yes, 2/3 year olds have characteristic grammar failures typical to the age... but then again, our best general-purpose AIs still botch things up too...)
Whether it's a faked video or not, I don't know or care... I see no reason to believe that a certain set of 2 years olds could do this, that a much larger set of 3 year olds could do this, and the vast majority of 4 year olds could do this, as long as they can concentrate for long enough. Indeed I would expect them to find this a boring task relatively quickly, because it's not that challenging.
So I assume this is an April Fools? Not sure, and I hate expanding efforts on filtering April Fools. Tried the game, it's nice. Got 1 point on my first try, somehow managed 15 points on the second. I don't think a baby would get any points, so I'll go with April Fools.
Their update says it was removed from the Apple App Store. I can't find out why, does anyone know (or might be able to hazard an educated guess) why it was taken down?
I can't believe that URL wasn't already taken.
Just had my two year old daughter beat me at this game. Thanks for destroying my self-esteem.
How many time / tries did she need to understand the game?
Did you give her any clues about how to play? Can she read some letters?