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Go (Game)
Go (Game)
The further from centre, the more strongly this hobby leans that way. Your quiz answers are scored against exactly these fifteen.
- RestfulPhysical
- IndoorsOutdoors
- SolitarySocial
- PracticalCreative
- InstinctiveTechnical
- Hands-offHands-on
- RelaxedCompetitive
- CautiousDaring
- Quick winsPatient
- PrivatePerformer
- MinimalistCollector
- Just do itStudious
- Low-kitGear-heavy
- AnalogDigital
- ObjectsLiving things
An ancient board game with simple rules and enormous depth, where you place stones to surround territory. The handicap system lets any two players have a close game.
This weekendTime to first win
A few hoursA session
Mostly indoorsWhere
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Is it you?
What you need
4 thingsThe honest floor, taking the cheapest option in each$55
How we make money: if you buy through one of these we take a small cut, and the price is the same either way. The cheapest option that works is always listed first.
The path
14 questsASetting up2 things to sort, in any order$37
BThen the quests
- Play a full 9x9 game to a counted result
- Play your first game on a small board
- Save a group by making two eyes
More on Go (Game)
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Guides
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Best Go Books (2026): Beginners Want Joseki and Need Life and DeathEvery beginner reaches for a book of joseki, the memorised corner sequences, because they look like the secret. They are not. Strength at Go comes from reading life and death and recognising good shape, and a player who has memorised openings without those will play twenty moves of professional theory and then lose the group.Best Go Sets for Beginners (2026)A Go set is just a board, a bowl of black stones, and a bowl of white, but the details make a real difference when you are learning. Magnetic stones that do not slide, a full 19x19 grid, and a board that lies flat all make the game easier to focus on. Here are three complete sets, from a travel board to a bamboo one.
From the blog4
20 Nerdy Hobbies That Make You SmarterEvery time you pick up a challenging hobby, your brain adapts. New neural pathways form, existing ones strengthen, and cognitive functions that atrophy from routine get a workout. Here are 20 hobbies that are genuinely, measurably good for your mind.Best Hobbies for INTJs: What Genuinely Fits the Architect MindIf you are an INTJ, you have probably opened a dozen "hobbies for your personality type" lists and closed every one. They are generic, interchangeable, and clearly written by someone who has never sat with the specific way an INTJ gets bored. So here is the honest version. The wrong hobby for you is not merely dull, it is actively irritating: a social ritual with nothing to master, a pastime with no underlying logic to optimise, a game with a ceiling you will hit inside a week. You do not want to pass the time. You want to spend it building deep competence in something with a real skill curve, ideally alone, ideally for years. This is a properly considered list of the hobbies that fit that mind, whether or not they are the obvious ones.Best Hobbies for INTPs: What Actually Holds the Logician MindIf you are an INTP, most "hobbies for your type" lists will bounce right off you, and you already know why. They read like they were generated by someone matching adjectives to activities, with no grasp of the specific thing that makes an INTP quietly abandon a hobby three weeks in. It is not that the hobby got hard. It is that you finished understanding it. Once you have seen how the system works underneath, the doing part can feel almost beside the point, and you drift off toward the next interesting question. So this is the honest version, written for the way you actually engage: driven by curiosity, hungry to understand how things work from the inside, happiest when you are playing with an idea just to see where it goes. The best hobbies for you are not the ones that keep you busy. They are the ones that keep giving you something to figure out. Here is the properly considered list, whether or not the obvious lists include them.Hobbies That Look Good on a Resume (and Actually Help You)A hobbies line on your resume is small, but it works harder than people think: it is a conversation starter in interviews and quiet evidence of who you are outside the job. The trick is that the best resume hobbies are not the ones that just sound impressive, they are the ones that genuinely build a useful trait. Here are the hobbies that signal something real, sorted by what they show about you.
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