Quantum Dogfight

Quantum Dogfight is a turn-based guessing strategy game built around the quantum mechanical principle of superposition. At the start of a game, both players place their planes in two distinct locations. You attack hex tiles to guess where your opponent’s planes are, while tracking your own board and choosing when to collapse your planes’ superpositions.

Guess and attack

While a plane is in superposition, both of its possible locations can be attacked. The goal is to successfully attack all locations of either one of your opponent’s planes. You can invoke a measurement collapse to make one of your planes’ two locations its final location. The choice is made probabilistically, so you cannot control which location is selected. You can use collapses to confuse your opponent.

Learn quantum mechanics

The game is designed with young STEM-oriented students in mind. Its learning module explains how principles of quantum mechanics are incorporated into the game’s mechanics.

Ways to play

The game offers two ways to play:

• Local: take turns sharing a single computer.
• Online: connect from two computers over the internet.