READER CREATES ZEN GAME FOR WIFE

“Zen Ten Match” is a fun new game. A reader named Marc made it. Here’s how it happened. “After a stressful day,” Marc said, “my wife reached for her favorite puzzle game and ended up more stressed than when she started,” thanks to the countdown timer.  So after a long search, he found a fun game from his school days. “But every version was buried in ads. It felt like a Vegas slot machine: flashing, noisy, overstimulating. So I built the opposite.” It took months to get it right, since he hadn’t programmed anything since sixth grade. A bit of artificial intelligence certainly helped. Now, thanks to those efforts, you can play it for free at ZenTenMatch.com, or download the […]

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