The game guide · Curiosity
How to play Collect the Clues
Choose useful clues and ignore visual distractions. Collect the marked good symbols while leaving distractors alone. This short collecting challenge uses a clear visual rule and a themed invitation to choose what deserves your attention.
Your starting point
Choose useful clues and ignore visual distractions.
The rules
Tap or collect the marked good symbols as they fall. Avoid the distractor symbols. Follow the on-screen legend and feedback until the round ends.
A helpful approach
Read the symbol legend before starting, then focus on the marked good objects. Let a difficult catch pass rather than reaching for every moving thing. Separate what you actually observe from the explanation you are tempted to add before you have evidence.
After the game
What is worth giving attention to, and what could you comfortably let pass today? What question could you ask about an everyday object that you normally pass without a second thought?
There is no need to turn a small moment into a perfect performance. Play again if you want to explore it, or leave it here and take the thought into your day.
The feeling behind it
Notice, ask, test and look again. You can enjoy not knowing something yet without racing to sound certain.
A museum learning approach inspires inquiry. It is an educational practice, not a national personality trait.
Read our curiosity story, inspired by Object-based learning in Smithsonian educational practice, United States. The Smithsonian Learning Lab: Object-Based Learning provides the source context.
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