Begin Your Deductions With New Turing Machine Board Game

February 22, 2022 by brennon

Le Scorpion Masque has a new board game in the works for later this year. Follow in the footsteps of Alan Turing with the Turing Machine for one-to-four players.

Turing Machine // Scorpion Masque

The invention of this basic artificial intelligence which could answer yes/no questions was the inspiration for the Turing Machine board game. This is another deduction game from Le Scorpion Masque that uses a proto-computer set-up to find the only code that will pass the test of the verifiers.

Turing Machine Components // Scorpion Masque

The game and the "AI" uses a rather funky new punch card system that has been introduced into the game. This means that the game now offers more than four million problems for you to solve based on various combinations. Pretty impressive. These can range from the simple through to the "mind-staggeringly complex" as the folks behind the game have put it.

This one sounds like it could be quite the brain burner. BUT, it does come in around the twenty-to-thirty minute mark so at least it's going to be a short burst of intense puzzling!

Are you tempted to give this a shot?