Quantum Quest
Travel in time and space through quantum history to save Schrödinger’s cat!
You're a scientist who has built a time-travel portal. But you have one small problem: you can't control when and where it takes you.
Maybe it’s because of your chaotic lab, tools scattered, wires tangled, equations half-solved. Then, the inevitable happens. You trip on a wire and get sucked into the portal! After landing somewhere in time and space, you’re no longer alone. A mischievous cat—Spinny—appears, desperate to escape a bad situation.
“Take me with you!” the cat pleads.
With no better option, you agree, and Spinny joins your journey. Together, you must navigate quantum history, solving riddles and collecting clues to find your way back to 2025—and Save the Cat!
Any participation, even without completing the quest, gives you the right to collect a gift at the APS village Public Affairs or at the NCCR SPIN booth “Hidden Variables” at the Quantum Playground from Tuesday March 18. If you return to 2025 and save the cat, you can collect an additional prize!
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Starting the game
You can enter this game either individually or as a team by choosing one of the following options. If you would like to enter as a team (encouraged!), choose one team captain to input a team name. The Captain can then share the team link or QRCode that appears at the bottom of the next page to the rest of the crew, who can enter the game through the team link/QRCode.
Option 1
Click the following link and enter the game code: RLAN
Option 2
Scan the following QRCode
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Save the Cat is organised by the National Center of Competence in Research "Spin Qubits in Silicon" (NCCR SPIN), a Swiss National Science Foundation funding scheme.
Game designers and organizers: Maria Longobardi, Marie Le Dantec, Joel Hutchinson.
Spinny is illustrated by Marie Le Dantec.
All of the photos and background images used in this game are either licensed from Adobe Stock, are public domain or have been generated by AI.
Thank you to our partners: NCCR SPIN, APS, FIAP (Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics), and Basel Precision Instruments (BASPI).
This game is powered by PlayTours.
