The challenges

Every challenge is a real problem.

Recognised philosophy, dramatised as a story. Each one forks three times, and every answer you give has to survive the other mind.

Tap an ending to walk its route.

The shape of every puzzle

Three forks deep.

  1. Where do you stand?

    The broad fork: two answers to the puzzle's question, and you take one.

  2. What does that commit you to?

    A new situation, not a harder version of the first. What you said a moment ago decides what you face now.

  3. What will it cost you?

    The last fork presents the bill for the position you've built, and asks whether you'll still hold it.

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questions
14
answers
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routes

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Plank by Plank

Not one plank from the first voyage is left. Is it still the same ship?

The whole puzzle, from Plutarch's ship to the close: three forks, the other mind at every one, a real three-second HOLD, and the leaning your route earns. Finish it and this site takes on your temperament.

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Ten to start with.

Every install comes with these ten, and a new challenge arrives every day. Open one to see its first fork.

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After the close

Every argument, kept.

The Path screen for Before Anyone Counted: the tree of routes, with the route taken traced in colour

See the path you took, and the ones you didn't

Every fork and every claim, kept exactly as you argued it. Tap any answer on the tree, even the ones you didn't pick, to read the argument you'd have run into.

The Sources screen for Before Anyone Counted: citations for Frege, Benacerraf and Gödel with notes

Read the sources afterwards

The books and papers behind each argument, each with a note on what you'll find there and a link to go further.

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The whole library, not one problem a day.

The daily challenge stays free. Premium opens every problem published so far, and every one to come, the moment it's published.

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