Concepts Guide

The game

Concepts is a game about combining pairs of concepts to create new, more complex concepts.

Try combining the two concepts below:

Once you create a new board, you start with the four classical elements:

Water

Fire

Earth

Air

Starting from here, you can combine concepts to build anything you can imagine!

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Concepts extends the game Infinite Craft by Neal, introducing many new features: account syncing, multiplayer, collections, stats, leaderboards, concept complexity, and more! Keep reading to learn more!

Complexity

The complexity is a number that indicates how many combinations are needed to reach a concept.

The initial classical elements have a complexity of 1:

Water

1

To compute the complexity of a new concept, you must take the maximum complexity of the two ingredients plus 1Say that:
A = complexity of ingredient 1
B = complexity of ingredient 2
C = complexity of product between A and B

Then:
C = max(A, B) + 1

In the example below:
max(6, 14) + 1 = 14 + 1 = 15, for example:

This way, each board has its own tree of concepts where each can have different complexities. This leads to interesting competitions, where you may be the only one holding the lowest complexity!

✨ Cascade effect improvements

When you discover a better recipe (with lower complexity) for a concept, every recipe that depends on that concept will automatically recalculate and potentially improve!

For example, assuming you already discovered the recipe from above (Sea + Sun = Beach), if you now discover a better recipe for Sun:

Sun

14

Sun

8

then the complexity of Beach will improve as well, since you know that Sea + Sun = Beach:

Beach

15

Beach

9

This creates a cascade effect where a single discovery can improve dozens or even hundreds of concepts at once, making trying to discover novel recipes a fun challenge!

Collections

Collections are themed groups of concepts to discover. They help you organize your exploration, give you goals to work towards, and let you compete on leaderboards with other players.

Examples include Colors, Fruits, Animals, Planets, and many, many more. Each collection contains a curated set of related concepts waiting to be found.

Fruits (example)

Progress0 of 12

DISCOVERED

Apple

6

Orange

9

Pear

9

Mango

11

Starfruit

12

Pineapple

18

Watermelon

21

Banana

23

NOT FOUND

4 remaining

Coconut

Guava

Kiwi

Pomegranate

Track your progress as you discover each concept, and challenge yourself to achieve the lowest total complexity for a collection. Compete on the leaderboards to see how your recipes compare to other players.

Can you complete them all?

Leaderboards

Every collection has a leaderboard where boards are ranked based on the concepts they have discovered. There is a leaderboard for each collection, and a global leaderboard where boards are ranked across all collections.

Leaderboards are sorted like this:

• Discovered: First, the leaderboard is sorted by the number of concepts discovered in the collection or across all collections if it's the global leaderboard. The more discoveries the better.
• Complexity: Then, as tiebreak, the leaderboard is sorted by the sum of complexities of the discovered concepts. The lower the complexity, the better.

Go get the lowest total complexity!

Multiplayer

Play together in real-time! Invite friends to your board and discover concepts together!

Water

Fire

Steam

Steve

Alex

Community

Share your craziest discoveries, trade recipes, and see what others are crafting!