Two weeks of discovery.
Thinking About Thinking is the founding official partner of DisCo, the Discovery Community. Our first joint programme opens today: a global scientific discovery competition, with a $14,000 prize pool, run for a single founding cohort.
DisCo is a community for people interested in scientific discovery, reasoning and problem solving. Two Weeks of Discovery is the competition it opens with, hosted jointly by DisCo and Thinking About Thinking.
A prize pool for the founding cohort, awarded across overall performance, the hardest puzzles in the set, and the communities who enter together.
Overall Performance
The highest combined score across all eligible puzzles.
Genius Puzzle Awards
$200 for the most efficient verified solution on each Genius Puzzle.
Community Builder
Refer fifty or more verified friends and earn the award.
Founding Community Challenge
Completed when twenty members of a community each refer twenty verified active participants.
You can do either, or both. Everyone plays as an individual, and a community is something you belong to on top of that. It never changes how your own puzzles are scored.
Take part as an individual.
Apply on your own and play under your own call-sign. Your profile, your results and your own place on the leaderboard. You never need a community to take part, or to win a prize.
Read the player guide →Enter as a community.
A society, a lab, a study group or a few friends. Your community gets its own page, a private group chat and a referral link, and is ranked collectively on discovery performance, growth and participation.
Read the community partner guide →Apply and set up a profile.
Sign in with the email you applied on, choose a call-sign and add a photo. Cohort 001 is forming now, so early members set the baseline the rest is read against.
Play the Discovery Table.
Each puzzle is a small scientific world with a hidden system behind it. Nobody tells you the rules. You experiment, notice and infer, which is the loop a scientist runs, compressed into a puzzle.
Work within levels, lives and steps.
Every level gives you a limited number of steps. Run out and you lose a life. Some puzzles carry a Creative Mode where you can experiment without spending either.
Climb the leaderboard.
You are ranked on how efficiently you solve, measured in steps taken on your first attempt. The cohort board stays hidden until the competition closes.
The competition is two weeks. What comes out of it is meant to last longer than that.
Discovery Ambassador
Achieve on the Discovery Table, or grow the community around you, and you become a Discovery Ambassador in Thinking About Thinking.
Discovery Fellow
The top overall winner becomes a Discovery Fellow in Thinking About Thinking and joins a closed session with our team and sponsors at the AE Global Summit.
Verified certificates
Roles carry a verified certificate with a public verification link, for a CV, a portfolio or LinkedIn, alongside your DisCo record of real results.
Fellows and Ambassadors of Thinking About Thinking are welcome to enter as individuals, and societies and research groups are welcome to enter as communities and be scored together.
The first cohort is small on purpose. It sets the baseline against which the public benchmark competition will later be read, so the people in it are doing more than competing. They are establishing what a good performance looks like.
The societies and research bodies entering the first cohort alongside us.
You are early. That is the point.
Cohort 001 is forming now. Join, play, and bring the people who would enjoy this.
Fellows and Ambassadors
The people who carry this work into their own institutions and communities.
Read more →Our partnerships
The standing partnerships we keep with universities, societies and public-interest organisations.
Read more →AE Global Summit
Three days on the open problems of artificial intelligence, 25 to 27 November 2026.
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