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> In this case, the alligators and their eggs behave so differently from anything familiar (egg hatching to whatever the parent ate?!) that I find the cognitive burden increases to the point of giving up.

I imagine, in this case, it's because us adults are (a) trying to figure out what exactly (what computing concept) Bret is trying to explain while we come across each rule and (b) trying to find logical explanations for everything. Children are not burdened with these things, and I'm guessing would have no problem going along with eggs that hatch into whatever their parent ate.

Personally, I think it's really cool. Real-life play-testing definitely required though!

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I think I agree with the GP. I just tried to explain this to my 5 y/o (admittedly she is possibly too young).

Questions I faced:

"Which alligator is the mummy?"

"Why does the alligator want to eat the other one? Don't alligators eat people?"

"Where is the pink alligator?"

"When the egg hatches will it be a boy or a girl? Because I don't like boy alligators."

We had a lot of fun, but it didn't come anywhere close to achieving any kind of stealth learning outcomes, which seems to be its intention.