Learning requires us to form robust connections between new information and existing information. I’ve been experimenting with ideas on how to test knowledge and conceptual understanding, and this is one of those ideas.

Unlike a similar party game, in which you have a finite set of categories and the goal is to select two categories for a randomly chosen term, this game presents you with two categories in which there are already terms selected. Your job is to identify the categories based on the terms listed in each circle, and then identify the intersecting terms. The number lets you know the minimum number of terms that should be in the intersection.

Can you solve this puzzle? What do you think of this study approach?