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Oliver Roeder

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Oliver Roeder has been a senior writer at FiveThirtyEight and editor of The Riddler, a collection of the site’s math puzzles. He studied artificial intelligence as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and holds a PhD in economics focused on game theory. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Average rating: 3.89 · 1,189 ratings · 208 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Seven Games: A Human History 3.88 avg rating — 1,132 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Riddler: Fantastic Puzzles from FiveThirtyEight 4.17 avg rating — 46 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ludens: Siete juegos de mesa que explican al ser humano (geoPlaneta Ciencia) by Oliver Roeder (Goodreads Author), Raquel García Ulldemolins (Translator) 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fantastische Rätsel und wie Sie sie lösen können: Logik, Wahrscheinlichkeit, Geometrie, Spiele und mehr! by Oliver Roeder (Goodreads Author), Matthias Delbrück (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The real world may from time to time offer us a chance to solve an elegant problem, and the satisfaction that comes with it, but games offer this chance constantly.”
― Oliver Roeder, Seven Games: A Human History

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“There’s a reason people have been playing Go for thousands and”
― Oliver Roeder, Seven Games: A Human History

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“the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Go.”
― Oliver Roeder, Seven Games: A Human History

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