# Tabletop Games Based on Math Problems

DevFeed: [Tabletop Games Based on Math Problems](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/tabletop-games-based-on-math-problems-40482.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.jeremykun.com/2024/03/08/tabletop-games-based-on-math-problems/>)

Published: 2024-03-09T04:06:19Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Jeremy Kun](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jeremy-kun.md>)

Topics: [math](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/math.md>), [Mathematics](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mathematics.md>), [Math and Logic](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/math-and-logic.md>), [Hugo](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hugo.md>), [LaTeX](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latex.md>), [WordPress](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/wordpress.md>)

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## AI overview

A short list of tabletop games whose mechanics are directly based on nontrivial mathematical structures or problems. It discusses games including SET and Spot It!, along with related questions in finite geometry, vector spaces, and combinatorics.

## Source excerpt

There's a family of tabletop games that are based directly on a nontrivial mathematics problem. As a casual and fun way to inaugurate my new blog (migrated from Wordpress to Hugo, after my work on getting better LaTeX mathmode support in Hugo), I thought I'd write a short listicle about them, so that I have a place to add more as I find them, as well as give the shortest canonical description of the associated math problem.