![]() ![]() An Anglican clergyman with a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College in Dublin, Kirkman quietly served a small parish in Lancashire, in the north of England, for 52 years. The Reverend Thomas Penyngton Kirkman was not a mathematical rock-star, not exactly. This was an era of abstract mathematical philosophy and enquiry, of laying down the mathematical principles that undergird modern-day digital technology-without these guys, modern computing couldn’t exist. After a period of relative stagnation during the Georgian era, the reign of Queen Victoria seemed to produce a flowering of mathematical rock-stars, people like Charles Babbage, George Boole, John Venn and Arthur Cayley. At the time, Britain was in the midst of a kind of mathematical renaissance. The story of Spot It!, first and still published as “Dobble” in Europe, starts in 1850 Britain. The game provides several different ways to play, but they all hinge on the speed with which you spot the match-the two blocks of cheese, the ink spots, the dolphins, the snowmen and so on.īut how- how!?-is it possible that every single card matches another card in just one way? If you choose any two cards at random, one symbol always matches. The basic structure of the game is this: the deck has 55 cards, with eight symbols on each card, culled from a bank of 57 symbols in total. It’s the kind of game that makes you feel like you’re doing something good for your brain when you play it. It’s frequently used in classrooms, appears on lists of educational games that promote cognitive development, and speech and occupational therapists across the U.S. ![]() More than 12 million copies of the game have been sold since its first release in 2009, with more than 500,000 sold each year in the United States alone. Spot It!, in its distinctive round tin, is hugely popular-it’s in the top ten of Amazon’s list of best-selling card games, right up there with classics such as Uno and Taboo. If you are a parent of children under the age of about 10, the chances are very good that you are acquainted with a game called “Spot It!” ![]()
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