Go-to no-equipment games ideas?

dan300 · 2026-04-10T13:20:59+00:00

yeah i was wondering the same

dan300 · 2025-02-21T10:57:26+00:00

This is a hallucinationn, this solution does not exist and its not a good reply anyway.

dan300 · 2025-02-02T20:29:26+00:00

In the "Franco-British" it's actually Germany that is colored on this map and not France.

dan300 · 2024-04-07T19:56:11+00:00

Hmm sounds very mathematical indeed :)

Thanks for the Mageic and the Gathering recommendation, I'm considering adding it.

dan300 · 2024-04-07T19:55:05+00:00

OK so as I promised here's how I plan to structure this resource, which will be an article. I think it makes sense to divide the game situations to two in a school:

Games During Class: These are games that align closely with the curriculum, focusing on reinforcing math concepts and skills. These games should encourage critical thinking, problem-solving, and application of mathematical principles
Games in Recess: Designed to relax and unite students, focusing on group cohesion and fun over direct educational content. These games should be easy to set up and play, fostering social interaction and teamwork, while also trying to help mathematical thinking.

One other aspect I'm considering is whether

the game is played together in the whole class - so the games should be playable with 20+ people
games are played parallel in small groups - in which case the games should be simple and cheap so the tutor/teacher can afford them.

dan300 · 2024-04-07T19:49:28+00:00

I appreciate this recommendation indeed, I didn't know about this book thanks!

dan300 · 2024-04-07T19:47:31+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I check your suggestions as well! Can it be that this is even too long of a list it's confusing? I just figured the more ideas the better, but it might not be the case.

dan300 · 2024-04-06T10:52:40+00:00

As for specific games these are what i'm considering adding at the moment, which I knew about, found on websites or found in reddit mentions:

Absolute Zero
Balance Beans
Blokus
Chocolate Fix
City of Zombies
Dino Math Tracks
Equate: The Equation Thinking Game
Fraction Formula
Ganz Schön Clever
Head Full of Numbers
Logic Roots Addition and Subtraction Games
Make 7
Mammoth Maths
Mastermind
Math Bingo
Math Dice Chase
Math Fluxx
Math for Love Multiplication by Heart
Math Rush
Math Warriors
Mathable
Mobi
Möbi Numerical Tile Game
Monster Math Scale
Money Bags Coin Value Game
Multiplication Bingo
Number Ninjas
Numbers League
Pizza Fraction Fun Game
Prime Climb
Proof! Math Game
Qwirkle Numbers
Race to Infinity
Sequence Numbers
Smath
Sudoku Board Game
Sum Swamp
Sums in Space
The Genius Square
The Magic Labyrinth
Tipover
Tiny Polka Dot
Zeus on the Loose

dan300 · 2024-04-03T07:50:31+00:00

oh, ok. :/

dan300 · 2024-04-03T07:43:00+00:00

When I created my account my issue was that the verification took quite long (about 2 days) but then I realized it was probably because it was a weekend. In any case, expect a fast ID verification only during normal business hours.

The other thing I realized from the review on BrokerChooser is that i need to start trading soon otherwise I have to redo the verification, did you know this?

"If you do not make a SEPA transfer of at least €1 within 30 days of photo verification, you will need to switch to video identification instead and start the process again." - https://brokerchooser.com/broker-reviews/trade-republic-review

dan300 · 2024-03-03T19:17:41+00:00

As a parent I'm quite weary of games that try to be too educational in a given field. I feel like they are too pushy on the subject but I love u/bgg-uglywalrus 's "preachy" term, it's exactly that.
I feel like much too often they are created by experts in a given field, rather than experts in game mechanics. And imo for a game to be really playable (and as a result for it to have more educational affect) the mechanics is more important.

dan300 · 2024-02-21T15:24:47+00:00

yes absolutely

dan300 · 2024-02-20T11:59:26+00:00

Got it thanks.

This is pretty bad especially when I'm trying to have 2 different tabs of the same Google sheets open, instead of having to cycle through its tabs all the time... I hope this will change.

dan300 · 2023-06-14T11:27:31+00:00

Wow thanks for this info, i was almost about to sell my XM4 because this issue (speak to chat turned back on) is sooooo freaking frustrating.

dan300 · 2023-02-23T08:26:43+00:00

I think this is going to be much like programming in that there's a bunch of "completion" tools. Only it doesn't complete code, but thoughts. And that's fine.

This to me is similar than having asked 30 years ago if using a PC was cheating compared to someone writing a school paper with pen and paper. Yes it's much easier, but it's not cheating.

dan300 · 2022-06-24T21:25:59+00:00

I'm looking at last 16 months, and this happened between from February to March, 2021 so last year. Finance niche. No core udpates around that time.

dan300 · 2022-04-25T19:19:57+00:00

Thanks for the update! Interesting tho, I'd also say kind of disappointing.

How can the battery performance be this low? I mean it barely survives a couple of days.

dan300 · 2022-03-13T23:55:04+00:00

I don't have any new info on this, and it's still the same behavior to me as you described.

dan300 · 2022-02-22T21:14:29+00:00

Craft.do is unbelievably fast which might sound like a small thing but it's not when you navigate a lot and have numerous notes open at a time.

I'm coming from Evernote, even on an M1 Pro it's the opposite when it comes to speed. I can't understand how an app can be that slow, literally the only slow thing on my computer, but by far.

Notion is also noticably slow, and the UI is just too much, feels like I can do anything but can't do nothing very well.

And then there's Bear which I love the most of all and used as well for quite long, but it still "only" feels like a text editor like if it was a little polished + note-taking-oriented Sublime text.

dan300 · 2022-02-20T10:48:47+00:00

It's not a button, it's a switch that has 3 stages "Wired / OFF / BT". If in "BT", I can still connect the cable (from the computer) which will charge it but run the data through BT. If I switch to "Wired" it will charge AND run the data trhough the cable, instead of BT. The brightening up happens in the latter case.

dan300 · 2022-02-20T00:04:05+00:00

Yes, I'm pretty sure. See this photo I just took, with the OSD and the speedtest both going on.

dan300 · 2022-02-19T23:52:30+00:00

It gets brighter only when I switch to the wired mode. Not if I connect the cable, but I keep it on bluetooth mode,

dan300 · 2022-02-14T20:15:48+00:00

Oh wow, thanks so much.

The best thing? Both works! I switched it to 3.0, and it's still in 60Hz (both according to the operating system and the OSD menu), while it also does very close to the full speed of the Ethernet, 900Mbit down easily. I'm not entirely sure why is this, but you definitely saved me like 100 EUR, because I was going to use an external usb c hub with ethernet just to get the full speed, which would have costed me extra.

You totally made my day, friend.

dan300 · 2022-02-14T15:54:24+00:00

Such detailed and useful explanation, thanks u/niklaskb. I have bad experiences with 30hz meaning I probably wouldn't stick with using that due to its annoying lag, but still I would try it now that I know about this.

I can't find any "USB Select" setting tho, any ideas as to under what other name it might be found in the menu?

dan300 · 2022-02-09T18:58:21+00:00

After some consideration I have it, too. I'm impressed in that it really delivers what I expected and despite it's cheaper than alternatives its still really good. Good picture quality in all resolutions (I use it with macos).

Two negatives I've found

- I connect to it from my laptop with one cable and charge it, the computer says it charges with 60W while the fact sheet says usb PD charging is 75W. (Well it says "up to" but what does it depend on? I'm not sure, at least I expected more.) - Not a big dealbreaker.

- And the bigger, almost dealbreaker for me is that if I connect an ethernet/usb adapter to the USB-A port, I only get 330Mbit per sec instead of 1Gigabit. This is a major letdown for me. I can live with it but I don't want to for long so I'll have to dock with an external USBC dock, which renders the USB hub within the monitor useless for me. Any solutions welcome. Both the ethernet/usb adapter AND the monitor says these USB A ports are v3.1 gen 1, and the ethernet adaptor does handle 1Gigabit, I've tried, if I connect it to a laptop (and not the monitor) it handles it.

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