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Super fun math puzzler, January 3, 2023by Lance Cirone (Backwater, Vermont) (Adapted from an intfiction.org review) Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Scratches an itch I can't name, November 5, 2021by mg51 Related reviews: five stars, spell casting, single room, (actually many rooms), (but single room in spirit) I have absolutely enjoyed the experience of playing this game. I'm one of those people who likes mathematical thinking, but who hasn't been in a math class for about a decade, so this is perfect for me because it isn't prohibitively challenging as far as the sort of math you have to actually perform, but it requires you to test things out and think outside of the box as more ways to create numbers become accessible to you in the form of "spells". Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Brilliant game about integers, March 28, 2021by Victor Gijsbers (The Netherlands) In Junior Arithmancer, we play a prospective student of magic doing an entrance examination in arithmancy, which is more or less the magic of the integers. More or less: the range of numbers is restricted to a finite interval, with overflows wrapping around; and the laws of magic turn out to have a curious in-built preference for the decimal system. Anyway, during the examination we are supposed to learn and then cast spells that add, subtract, multiply, and so on, in order to create specific sequences of numbers. Meanwhile, three examiners comment on our progress. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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| Direct link | Add a comment Anyone who has done some serious maths will tell you that it can be quite magical. Even with the most basic of operations you can do some impressive tricks with astonishing results. It is that feeling of wonder you get, when you finish a long set of calculations that end up with surprising – simple but true – answers which makes people love mathematics. Just think of the flow of solving a problem, that single moment when everything fits together and you see all the connections, and you might know what I mean. And this magic moments is exactly what Junior Arithmancer is all about.
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| Direct link | Add a comment The game is really about abstract number puzzles, or even computer science and programming puzzles, rather than mathematics per se. Despite its similarities to ABCA, it reminds me of programming games like “Robot Odyssey.” It’s also one that rewards creativity in thinking about and exploiting its mechanics, which is a great feature in a puzzle game.
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An enjoyable math-based pattern game with academic humor, February 19, 2019This game is essentially unique among interactive fiction. In a Zork-like setting, you are a math wizard (or arithmancer) taking an exam. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- nf, February 11, 2019 - Ploppy, January 28, 2019 - mapped, January 3, 2019 - Greg Frost (Seattle, Washington), December 1, 2018 - E.K., November 20, 2018 - Doug Orleans (Somerville, MA, USA), November 18, 2018 - Karl Ove Hufthammer (Bergen, Norway), November 18, 2018 9 of
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Original math puzzle game, November 16, 2018This was my favorite 2018 Ifcomp game. I can imagine that this game is not for everyone, since it is basically a logic/math game. However, it does not require a lot of mathematical knowledge. I would say that you can complete the game using basic math, though to get a perfect score, you should have heard about complex numbers. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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