What games get your brain overworked?
High IQ?
Any recommendations for intense strategy, puzzle or action games on any platform.
What are some great games for smart people?
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Is watching shows a game?
Drink a shot every time Morty says "geez". That'll bring your IQ down a few notches.
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existential catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂
And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎
Wow, for someone with such a high (self-declared) IQ, I would think you could at least spell "personal" properly….
Is this guy for real
@shazzadabazza: Thanks. I figured the amount of upvotes it must be something. i was just r/out of the loop.
Bahahaha just google this amazing insight to find it is plagiarised from a 2017 Reddit article, just another faker
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Hello. Can you help me take two strokes off my golf game?
Well, what about me? He roped me into this.
Chess
Do you know a good Chess game or website?
chess.com
That being said, Chess is a fun game, but it's no longer really a game that requires insane intelligence. It just requires a lot of time and study. Theory goes too deep in chess these days. Maybe 100 years ago, then yes, it was a game of intelligence.
It's easy to deviate from theory early in the game. If competitive play isn't your thing, then there are thousands of chess puzzles and tactic trainers on the web.
@kahn: I agree, but once you're playing enough to invest time into it, you'll be at a level where you have to study opening theory and endgames, otherwise you'll just be going out of the opening positionally worse or lose winning endgames because you can't convert them. Tactics are fun, but I don't think they're that related to actual games.
@p1 ama: Thats why Bobby Fischer invented chess95. Basically the person who wins these days is the person who can memorise the most theory.
Thats why Bobby Fischer invented chess95.
It's chess960. Fischer just created some rules for shuffle chess which had been around for many decades. For example, Jose Capablanca was a proponent of shuffle chess (partly because he was a somewhat lazy student of the openings).
Basically the person who wins these days is the person who can memorise the most theory.
That's an exaggeration. You don't seem like someone who knows much about the game.
@kahn: Fair enough mate, I am a casual chess fan at best. But I recall Fischer saying much the same thing, something along the lines of any idiot being able to beat Bertolucci if they could memorise enough theory.
That's the meta atm, Chess has always gone through stages of meta.
Look back 50 years ago, and the Italian Game was a normal opener… try playing someone seriously today with it and they'll think you're playing some sort of God-tier opening. Of course, the Queen's Gambit sort of just came about and nullified the play, but a lot of people now don't know that.@smalltime0: What are you trying to say about the Queen's Gambit exactly? How does it nullify the play?
@kahn: Without reviewing the entire history of chess, the Queen's gambit for a black player means that they can asymmetrically attack the white player. You get your Queen out early, and start pinning the knights. Before ~20th century a lot of openings in chess for black were symmetrical in nature.
Current meta is hypermodernism, which usually means that black is doing their own openings in concert with white's moves.@smalltime0: The Queen's Gambit has many different variations with varying styles of play. Your generalisations simply don't make sense to me.
Given that it's a game with a particular set of moves available at any given time, there is only "one" way to play if you consider every move in the whole game.
The intelligence is in how you play the opponent more than how you play the game itself.
Stockfish for mobile. You won't be thinking you are smart with your butt in a sling that it will hand you.
You won't be thinking you are smart with your butt in a sling that it will hand you.
Computers have been able to beat humans at various things for ages.
Can you do 9324098 x 12390129? Computers can do that in less than a second.
Thank you for introducing Stockfish. Maybe I can use it to create chess variant games.
@Acolyte: also consider Go.
Rules are so simple but learning the key tactics can take a while.
For both Go and Chess I feel part of the fun is understanding and appreciating the theory, its history and doing puzzles.
@[Deactivated]: @DataScientist1 Just made a comment about chess meta games and the history, scroll to the next comment tree and you posted this.
100% what chess is when you play it seriously.@[Deactivated]: Opening theory for Go is much less didactic than for chess though, mainly due to the exponentially larger number of possible moves. Its only been in the last few years that computers have been competitive with top-notch humans. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/computer-program-can…
@cannedhams: Openings definitely more flexible than chess in many ways.
I started playing go about 2 years before deepmind's alphago beat a pro.
There's a great documentary about alphago freely available on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y
I feel both inspired and said when I think about how computers can now beat humans in go.
When I started playing, one of the things which I thought was great was that you realistically could get to a level which was better than the best computer at the time. (At the time the best computer was probably equivalent to 1800 chess rating. So definitely achievable with practice/study)
lichess
lichess
+1 for the recommendations for lichess.org. This site is free and runs on open source software. Founder, Thibault Duplessis, is an advocate for open source. :-)
Chess.com has more content and players but I prefer the community feel of lichess. :-)
Do you know a good Chess game
Chess
Chess is devil's game.
That is a fancy way of spelling Candy Crush
Tetris
Boom Tetris for Jonas
Underated comment :'D
not sure if tetris would improve your intelligence or considered a game for smart people
but it would improve your skill in rearranging items in a room
Do cryptic crosswords. You get access to a daily one if you subscribe to The Age. They bring everything you know to the table.
Solitaire.
Humble brag
Certainly a fun game.
Civ is pretty deep.
I haven't played the Victoria games, but they also have a reputation for depth.
Maybe space one called "spreadsheets in space", EVE online?I tend to play boardgames on the iPad, as they aren't a huge time investment, but can be challenging.
Dunno if I'm smart enough to meet your expectations, though.OP's asking for 'high IQ' games on a bargain forum. I consider a ball of yarn as a challenging toy for anyone who can't google.
I'd give you a medal if you could do this : https://www.amazon.com/ENIGMA-Hanayama-Metal-Teaser-Puzzle/d…
ASX
I spent so many hours on this game. Such great fun.
COD
I think I lost all of my miniscule brain cells in this game. That being a said, a cross map QS was worth it!
Minuscule (like “minute” not “miniature”)
The game of life
All of the 'Zachtronics' games on steam are quite highly rated.
Infinifactory is probably the easiest and most accessible.
SpaceChem if you like chemistry, but no actual chemist knowledge needed.
TIS-100 and ShenZhen IO more for the programmers.
Also came here to recommend Zachtronics.
Infinifactory is awesome.
Opus Magnum is another good one, it's alchemy themed.
Molek-Syntez is chemistry themed, also nice.For simpler puzzles, Matthew Brown has made some nice games.
Check out Hexcells, SquareCells & CrossCells.
They're also on Steam.These look like a good sweet spot. It seems to be a light way to do language programming. Thank you.
KOHCTPYKTOP: Engineer Of The People is free!
A great example of a Zachtronics game with a circuit design flavour (if you don't want to buy anything).
http://www.zachtronics.com/kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-peopl…
The Zero Escape series
I enjoyed Stein’s Gate and Danganronpa Anime. The same creators made the visual novel games the Anime series are based on. I’ll give the Zero escape series a shot. Which one is the best do you think?
You have to play them in order! (or at least complete the visual novel for number 1 on iOS)
Highly recommend Lumosity app. They have some daily challenges. Some games are free to start with daily.
I used to play them 2-3 years back. Amazing way to utilized commute time.https://www.lumosity.com/landing_pages/970?gclid=Cj0KCQjwyJn…
Destroy all humans
Have you played Portal? I found the original and Portal 2 to be easy however the free mod Portal Stories: Mel was a good challenge
Portal is great fun. Didn’t know about the community mod. Looks good. Cheers.
What are some great games for smart people?
If your so smart then why not do your own research?
IQ and Google skills don't have a direct correlation unfortunately 😉
"smart" enough to outsource menial tasks…
OP is researching…
Asking is a type of research..but of course OP could have just google the same question
https://www.google.com/search?q=What+are+some+great+games+fo…
To be fair, OP's post is now the top link on Google for me.
Papers Please
Factorio, great game lots of depth. Planning, logistics, engineering, programming with a little bit of alien killing thrown in for good measure.
The Witness without looking up a guide
This type of game was my thought, my personal favourite in the same genre is the Talos Principle.
Braid, The Witness, Portal 1 and 2
Yep, came here to say braid.
Kinda wish the witness was more of the same re braid but hey I'll take what I'm given.
Stockmarket
Haha, I was about to say that. Add Forex on the top of that.
Victory = new Lambo :)
Try Mini Metro in extreme mode.
For a good puzzle game I quite enjoyed Trainyard, although it's not that challenging if I recall correctly as I finished it in a few hours.
I think it's no longer in the Play store but can still be purchased for Android through Amazon. I got it free with this deal back in the day…
I was once given the task before a technical interview for an internship. "Download Trainyard, play it to the highest level possible, take a screenshot of your level screen". I ended up really enjoying the game, and finished it after about 24h, with 100% stars. I found it pretty challenging, but really rewarding, I wouldn't call it hard. The interviewer was pretty impressed. He said they've already given the internship to someone else, but he actually offered me a full-time job instead.
Who ever said playing games never gets you anywhere.
Gosh maybe I should find a new job or do a career change haha.
Peak
Episodes of Rick and Morty.