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The linked post describes how to play Fermi Poker. It's an estimation game that combines the betting mechanics of poker with making estimates about questions like "How many dentists work in the US?"

"Eleven days ago was Enrico Fermi's 125th birthday. To celebrate his life and work, we're planning to sponsor hundreds of Fermi Poker tournaments at schools and universities.

Fermi Poker is an estimation game that combines the emotional stakes and social dynamics of poker with the analytical yet creative skill of Fermi estimation. Instead of being dealt random cards, you make guesses about questions that seem unknowable at first, like “How many dentists work in the US?” You write down a secret guess, bet on it, get helpful hints, bet again, and win by either having the best guess or by bluffing everyone else out."

"There are two well-known attempts to build miniature cities for children: Mini-Munich and KidZania.

Both have streets, storefronts, jobs, and a local currency. But they are built on opposing assumptions about what children are capable of. One treats children as consumers of scripted activities; the other lets them participate in a city whose parts depend on one another and is malleable to their actions."

Children behind bank counters, in city councils, as mayors, as newspaper and television editors, as employees in registration offices, as workers in a furniture workshop, in a stonemason’s workshop – naturally, none of that is possible. They lack all the prerequisites, we think. Not just in ability, but also in seriousness, in accountability, in responsibility. And besides, child labor is forbidden, in the interest of children, as we like to say. And so we let them grow up in the children’s ghetto, let them dream of what will happen “when I grow up someday.” They remain, as if it were only natural, locked out of the serious realities of life – immature, in need of supervision, not to be taken seriously.

I have now implemented a share function, thanks for the suggestion once more!