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FactGAME is a game for two players to test their knowledge of chemical facts. The game begins when the
program presents a question that it has selected from a
bank of related questions (all on Chapter 1 of a particular
text, for example). Player One is asked to answer the
question aloud. The computer gives the correct answer and
Player Two judges whether Player One's response was
adequate. If so, Player One receives credit for a correct answer.
Player Two then receives a question, etc. Play continues until
one player has answered correctly the number of
questions agreed upon at the start of the game.
By having the one player judge the answer of the other,
FactGAME encourages discussion of the question posed.
The software itself is not judgmental, serving only to
choose questions at random from the chosen topics, to present
acceptable answers, and to keep score. In this way it is
analogous to the board in Trivial Pursuit and hopefully
encourages the same social interaction using chemistry as the
focal point.
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