Fast (catherinejue.com)

I’ve been building a few small games to help kids (and curious adults) build reasoning and logic skills. Think Word Ladder, Prime Hunter, Math Maze ,all in the browser, no installs. Would love feedback or suggestions for new types of puzzles

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dskhatri · 6m ago

Nice work. I like the simple, unobtrusive and ad-free interface. I have kids who could use this although you face lots of competition for their very limited alloted active screen time [1]. The 6 yo gets 45 mins a week on the computer, usually opting for PBSkids, kodable or scratch. The 3 yo gets 15 mins usually opting for guided digital canvas painting as they learn to use a mouse.

There are a few good no-screen puzzle books for kids (lookup the ones by Usborne).

As a recent publisher of an interactive children's book [2] in both digital and physical forms, I am seeing more sales of the physical books than the digital/web one despite the latter having more features including an element of teaching math.

Curious if you considered publishing a physical book with these concepts/math puzzles?

[1] This app inspires me to upgrade some of their passive screen time (TV) to more of this t [2] https://tendollaradventure.com

getnormality · 2h ago

Prime Hunter sometimes generates sets with no prime numbers.

gjm11 · 21m ago

In the few games I tried, it always ended up that way. You start with a few prime numbers (if you're lucky). Each time you click on one, it gets replaced with another number that usually isn't prime. After a short while, there are no primes left and then there's nothing to do but sit and wait for the game to end.

Perhaps all the numbers should have a finite lifetime, after which they evaporate and a random new one replaces them.

kevinventullo · 1h ago

Also, tiny nit but the text at the end says the largest known prime number has over 24 million digits. While technically true, the current largest prime number in fact has over 41 million digits!

(Also, I love this. I hope you’re still hosting it once I have kids)

jldugger · 1h ago

> the current largest prime number in fact has over 41 million digits!

Because there's an infinite number of primes?

kevinventullo · 47m ago

*largest known :)

seidleroni · 2h ago

This is really great, well done! I have two young kids and was thinking about putting something like this together and I'm delighted that you beat me to it. Having a 6yo and 8yo, it would be great if there were some more basic games as well.

2kblater · 1h ago

I did something similar for my children – very suitable for ages 3 to 5: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3355240/Teach_Kids_Games/

512 · 32m ago

This reminds me of the Optiver internship selection process.

pizzathyme · 1h ago

Have to ask: How old are your kids? Very fun puzzles! Do they like them?

jacobmarble · 2h ago

FYI Firefox fails to load the page for me:

> Secure Connection Failed > > An error occurred during a connection to quizmathgenius.com. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s). > > Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP

stevenkkim · 22m ago

Same for me.

ArekDymalski · 2h ago

it's really nice (both idea/purpose and execution). what would be really great is having direct URLs for each game so you can share and point your kid to specific puzzle.

jamoner · 1h ago

I was trying the sum game, but there was no combination of three numbers to add up to 15. I took a screenshot if it helps.

nickpsecurity · 2h ago

I'll just pop in to say it's neat that you built that for your kids. The presentation is good, too.

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