The Mandal group is actively developing board games, computer games, and simulators to lower the barrier to understanding quantum mechanics.
The photo is from an outreach event at Texas A&M, where high school students joined us for a tense quantum tournament.
Our group has created a board game that plays by the rules of quantum mechanics. In Quantum Ninjas vs. Laser Robots, the ninjas disguise their whereabouts by spatially delocalizing (their wavefunction), while a stash of quantized photons lets them hop between states. The laser robot hunts them down by “observing”—rolling a die to collapse the wavefunction and (maybe!) catch a ninja, all in true quantum style.