Games are a cool and interactive way to learn. One of the things we can learn through games is some basic quantum concepts. Quantum concepts may seem strange or illogical to us, but these games can probably help us understand some quantum concepts to some extent. In this article, we introduce some games. These games are designed to help players get a little familiar with the quantum world.
Some games to get familiar with quantum
Hello Quantum game
The Hello Quantum game is an intellectual game for teaching the basic concepts of quantum computing. This game was developed at IBM Research in collaboration with Professor James Wootton from the University of Basel, Switzerland.
In this game, a pair of colored circles is used to visually describe the qubit.
In general, this game challenges the audience to build a circuit that receives a quantum state and changes it to an output state. The permitted changes in this game are quantum gates such as X Gate, Y Gate, H Gate, etc.
(Introduction and Investigation Video)
Quantum Cats game
If you are a fan of Angry Birds style games, you will probably like this game.
Some people may find the concepts of quantum science difficult. Even Einstein called these cases “mysterious”. The Quantum Computing Institute at the University of Waterloo has developed a game called Quantum Cats. This game can help you understand some concepts of quantum science.
In this game, four important concepts in quantum are shown: Classical, Superposition, Tunnelling and Uncertainty. Each of these concepts is described in the form of a cat and you must use them to free the kittens.
(Video related to this game from Institute of Quantum Computing)
Quantum TiqTaqToe game or quantum dose
A quantum dose is very similar to a normal dose. Three X’s or O’s in a row, column or diagonal make the corresponding player win.
In normal dosage, the only move allowed for the X player is to place an X and the only move for the O player is to place an O. But in quantum dose, some other movements are also allowed. Such as Superposition, Entanglement and Measurement.
In order to be able to explore each move and concept individually and find a view towards them, it is possible to enable or disable the moves and you can learn the moves one by one and then re-enable all the moves.
