Card Games Unveiled: Exploring the Underlying Linear Algebra
Abstract We discuss four famous card games that can help learn linear algebra. The games are: SET, Socks, Spot it!, and EvenQuads. We describe the game in the language of vector, affine, and projective spaces. We also show how these games are connected to each other. A separate section is devoted to playing Socks with the EvenQuads deck and vice versa.
Authors
- Tanya Khovanova
- Evin Liang
- Sylvia Zia Lee
- Rajarshi Mandal
- Adam Ge
- Nikhil Byrapuram
- Aika Oki
- Hwiseo
- Selena Ge
- Daniel Wu
- Чой
Institutions
- Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology (RU)
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Recreational mathematics magazine
- Published
- 2026-05-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2478/rmm-2026-0001
- Primary Topic
- Artificial Intelligence in Games
- Type
- preprint
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00