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Lance Ulanoff

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Gemini 3 thumb Wars.

I've dreamed of this silly game for years, and only Gemini 3 could bring it partially to life.

Google unveiled its powerful new Gemini 3 models this week, and I decided to take Gemini 3 Pro for a test drive on one of my pet projects: Thumb Wars, a digital version of the classic hand-to-hand game I used to play with my kids. You know the one, where you grasp each other's hands and then use just your thumbs to battle it out or "wrestle". To win, you simply have to "pin" the opponent's thumb under your own.

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