Brilliant, science-based approach to gaming – Ralph's Killer Muenster Review

The game is based on the principle of maximum parsimony as a method for identifying potential ancestral traits and therefore identifying the potential origin mutant muenster. Parsimony reconstruction finds ancestral states that minimize the number of steps of species change/mutation given a phylogenetic tree. A full parsimony reconstruction therefore requires a search of both the most efficient tree structure, as well as the most efficient ancestral path along the tree. So the game mechanic is the exact same as the real-world method used in genetic research. The game abstracts 3 traits of imaginary cheese specimens visually with unique visual representations (shape, lines, nodes). Your job is to reconstruct the phylogenetic tree based on the species sample in as few of moves (mutations) as possible. That's brilliant.
Review by nyff on Ralph's Killer Muenster.