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[Truth or Fail: Express]
Researchers turned quitting smoking into competitive sport
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37566442/
Scientists watch a hydrogel play pong
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1063433
Bonus: Dead salmon FMRI study
https://www.psychology.mcmaster.ca/bennett/psy710/readings/BennettDeadSalmon.pdf
Oregon Trail decision model
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1063290
[The Gauntlet]
Game Boy Pocket Sonar accessory
https://www.outdoorlife.com/fishing/game-boy-fishing-sonar/
https://gameboy.fandom.com/wiki/Game_Boy_Pocket_Sonar
Foldit players solve puzzles with what molecules
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/press-release/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/foldit-gamers-solve-riddle/
AI neural network from floppy disk to electronic game
https://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/2006-Spring/announce.burgener.html
https://openreview.net/pdf?id=FlR4Wyubayy
Jenga name in Swahili
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blog/jenga-tale-randomness-and-design
https://www.museumofplay.org/toys/jenga/
Candy Land disease epidemic
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/candy-land/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/history-disease-outbreaks-vaccine-timeline/polio
Jeopardy
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2007/03/19/jeopardy-has-first-3-way-tie/
https://www.npr.org/2009/12/20/121664528/sing-muse-of-the-jeopardy-three-way-tie
https://j-archive.com/showplayer.php?player_id=3578
https://www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/behind-scenes/breaking-down-four-rare-jeopardy-scenarios
100% win rate from high-speed robot
https://ishikawa-vision.org/fusion/Janken/index-e.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Game replayability reasons, impacts, and areas of future research
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED596614.pdf
https://www.firstpersonscholar.com/the-games-people-replay/
https://research.vu.nl/ws/files/3135888/293191.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1875952121000574
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X22002652
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1155/2024/5876780
Patreon bonus: Gamification, another facet of motivation psychology
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1475760/1/gamification_CHI2016_preprint.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1875952119300953
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050921023255
https://online.nursing.georgetown.edu/blog/how-to-stop-procrastinating-there-is-a-science-to-it/
[Butt One More Thing]
Original inventor of Scrabble was named Alfred Mosher Butts
https://time.com/archive/6909539/scrabble/
https://www.museumofplay.org/toys/scrabble/
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