The card game to the book
KevIn Asks
Fact or nonsense? How much power does a brain need? What does a quantum computer really do? A quiz for young and old on the topics of “KevIn Moves In”.
- 312 cards: a set of 12 for each of the book’s 26 chapters
- Starter set with rules and heart tokens
- For 2–6 players aged 8 and up, 20–30 minutes
- Answers via QR code and phone – with explanations and a link into the book
- Print it yourself: print single-sided, fold, glue, cut out
- Playable without having read the book
What you learn with the cards
- Artificial intelligence
- how language models learn and calculate, why they make up facts (hallucinations) and tell people what they want to hear, training data and knowledge cut-off, learning through rewards, AI images and deepfakes, AI and work, AI safety and the EU AI Act
- Online reviews
- spotting fake and paid-for reviews, typical warning signs, what the law says, which reviews – of doctors’ practices, for example – you can trust and what a digital signature proves – and what it does not
- Everyday security
- good passwords and hashes, phishing and fake web addresses, the grandchild scam and shock calls, confirmation codes by text message
- Encryption
- from Caesar and the Enigma to end-to-end encryption, public keys and digital signatures
- Digital money
- Bitcoin, blockchain and what a secret key has to do with it
- Quantum computers
- bits and qubits, superposition, entanglement, cooling and error correction, quantum supremacy, Shor’s algorithm and post-quantum cryptography
- Radio, codes and space
- Morse code, error correction on CDs, the Arecibo message, GPS, optical fibre and quantum communication, the ISS, solar storms and Sputnik
- Checking the news
- questioning sources, spotting fakes and why the first report is often not the right one
What you need to play
- A printer (A4, single-sided) and paper – ideally slightly thicker at 120–160 g/m²
- A glue stick and scissors (or a paper trimmer)
- A smartphone or tablet with a camera and internet access to scan the QR codes – one per round is enough
- A program for opening PDF files
- Optional: card sleeves (63.5 × 88 mm) to make the cards last longer
