Learn research by playing it.

Short games about AI, systematic reviews and how IAMB.AI works. Escape a library of retracted papers, screen abstracts with an AI teammate, drive a review from protocol to published. Free, no account needed.

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The games

Halloween special

Hallowreck

Escape a haunted library of retracted papers. The Ghost Professor has a treat for everyone who makes it out.

Why retracted papers keep getting cited, and how to check a paper before you cite it.
How to tell a real reference from one an AI made up: look it up.

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About 7 minutes

The Review Road

Drive through all eleven stops of a systematic review, from protocol to published, without hitting a single duplicate.

The eleven stages of a PRISMA 2020 review, in order, and what each one is for.
Why duplicates are merged before screening, and how they are found (DOI, PMID, titles).

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About 8 minutes

Screen Machine

Include or exclude? Screen made-up abstracts against numbered criteria, then settle your conflicts with Reviewer B.

How to judge a record against numbered inclusion and exclusion criteria, and why every exclusion needs a reason.
Why two people screen every record on their own, and how conflicts are resolved.

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About 10 minutes

Lab Quest

Walk the campus, help nine people with nine steps of research, and earn the professor's secret.

The research process end to end: question, protocol, search, screening, extraction, synthesis, writing, PRISMA and publishing.
What makes a research question answerable (PICO) and why the protocol comes before the search.

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For teachers

Assign a game, one of its modes or a single level in a course, for a grade: a score to reach, a level to clear, the professor to talk to, or a secret code to bring back. The gradebook fills itself in.

Every character, picture and tune in these games is our own.