David Johnson of New York Law School pointed me to Argz, a platform currently in development (and with Beta Release) to create a puzzle-game out of logic & critical thinking exercises. It’s intended to be used inside that law school’s classes. The site’s description of the Argz platform:
Everyone knows how to argue — or do they?
Argz is a new kind of puzzle to test and increase your reasoning skills. Unlike other puzzles that are based on numbers, or pictures, or individual words, Argz is a puzzle of ideas:
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Separate facts from arguments
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Understand the flow from evidence to conclusions
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Figure out where a piece of evidence fits in a complex argument structures
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Test your knowledge of current events
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Challenge yourself to recreate policy debates
The tool has Beta releases for users to author their own puzzles. They can create logic flows using a Diagramming tool (think Xmind or Visio) and make it into a game for others to play.
