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I Built a COMPUTER in Magic: The Gathering

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I Built a COMPUTER in Magic: The Gathering

Kyle Hill of Because Science explains and demonstrates, using real cards, how Magic: The Gathering can be used to build a Turing machine, a computer inside the card game.

HN links it as the accessible, hands-on demo behind the claim that Magic is Turing complete.

4 Hacker News mentions · 2019–2026

Topics

  • Computability & complexity theory
  • Chess, board games & puzzles

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