The Catalog
Games
The Academy contains games, wonders, and study traditions — each a single named practice belonging to one of the four schools. The catalog grows by admission, and eventually by community proposal.
Castalia
StudyThe Academy’s library: the discipline of curated study and shared reading.
Mind-BendersHonor-systemConway’s Game of Life
WonderEmergence from four simple rules — Conway’s cellular automaton, 1970.
Mind-BendersHonor-systemLatin Squares and Sudoku
WonderCombinatorial play — Euler’s eighteenth-century squares met by the contemporary puzzle.
Mind-BendersHonor-systemPente Grammai
GameThe five-line game of ancient Greece, restored to active practice.
Mind-BendersFederation pendingRithmomachia
GameThe medieval philosopher’s game of number, harmony, and victory by ratio.
Mind-BendersFederation pendingSymbonic
GameA game of synthesis: combining symbols across domains to compose meaning.
Mind-BendersFederation pendingThe Antikythera Mechanism
WonderAn ancient mechanical computer recovered from a Roman shipwreck off Antikythera.
Mind-BendersHonor-systemThe Tower of Hanoi
WonderThe classical recursion puzzle — three pegs, n disks, 2ⁿ − 1 moves.
Mind-BendersHonor-system