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The best in games often points to what's going to be the best in tech later, and I think @helvetica is making a good case for driving that conversation. The game takes a time-honored puzzle that people associate with "skills" and "rigor" and just teaches it to you lovingly. https://twitter.com/jag_pag/status/1288170728542494720
"But what if my students download the answers to my test?" "I grade on a strict curve." "Look to your left and right; only one of you will pass." Those are not things you hear in the branch of our future that includes an inflection point for Good Sudoku.
It ain't AI, it's not deeper learning stuff, no one's throwing Watson in here as a chatbot. It's a simple program that says "I don't care how *good* you are at Sudoku right now, just try out the fundamentals of what it means to play it, and if you like it, you can go deeper."
"And if not, that's also cool! Enjoy it anyway!"
(btw, this speculative alternate universe discussion continued with @Dan_Blick and I totally acknowledge that our systems of capital and work couldn't exist as-is in that timeline. This would be far-out-utopia stuff.)
