A game for three or more players called 'guess your neighbour's input' reveals common ground between classical and quantum physics — at the expense of more exotic, super-quantum, theories of nature.
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Winter, A. The usefulness of uselessness. Nature 466, 1053–1054 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/4661053a
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