Deducto consists of 10 levels each based on a unique permutation. The user is presented with a 5*5 square board of white and black boxes placed in a unique arrangement symbolizing a unique logic engineered for that particular level. The user is asked to identify the logic behind that arrangement of black and white boxes. Arrangement of boxes in the board according to the logic refers to “True Board”, while every other arrangement not following the pre-defined logic refers to “False Board”. “SAMPLE” tab helps the user identify the arrangement and deduce logic about “True Board” and “False Board” for the corresponding level in the game. Clicking on the “Resume” tab helps the user switch to and fro between the activity and the samples corresponding to that level.

Submission of an answer as a “Yes” after identifying whether the board is a “True Board” or a “No” in case of a “False Board” changes users’ efficiency to identify permutations correctly. If the user is able to submit five consecutive correct answers, he/she is promoted to the next level.

The user can also design a new Deducto game, and ask his/her friends, or students to play the activity created by him/her using “Create your game” feature.

Support

Support for this activity is provided by the developer at http://testtrack.seeta.in or by sending an e-mail to deducto at seeta dot in

Developer Comments

Alpha release - October 15, 2009
Rewritten from scratch on March 14-15 2012 to be more Sugar-like

Deducto is a learning activity to help children learn the art of
inductive logic through pattern recognition.


Inspiration

The initial code of Deducto was written in Perl by Jon Orwant, who
wrote it as part of this doctorial thesis on EGGG, a game generation
language, under the guidance of Walter Bender.

Walter then wrote a Javascript version for the web.

The Deducto Activity was written by a team of engineers at SEETA
(http://seeta.in): Ashita Dadlani, Anisha Arora, Satyajeet Singh, and
Manusheel Gupta

A Glade version of Deducto was developed by Assim Deodia, Vijay
Majumadar and Satyajeet Singh under the guidance of Manusheel Gupta
and Walter Bender.

A Non-sugarized pygtk version of Deducto was developed by Naveen
Aggarwal and Pankhuri Gupta under the guidance of Manusheel Gupta and
Vijay Majumadar.

This version was written by scratch by Walter in order to better match
the standard Sugar look and feel.

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