The game, called Quantum Moves, is based on a real problem in quantum computing: how fast a laser can move an atom between wells in an egg-box-like structure without changing the energy of the atom, which is in a delicate quantum state. In the quantum world, speed and energy are a trade-off limited by Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, so the trick is to find the sweet spot where the transition from one place to another is as fast as possible without disturbing the quantum state. Endless possible combinations of movement and timing exist, and scientists have designed computer algorithms to try to solve the problem.

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Sherson’s team got around 300 people to play this level a total of 12,000 times on a volunteer-research platform called ScienceAtHome. The researchers then fed the human solutions into a computer for further refinement. Not only were more than half of the human-inspired solutions more efficient than those produced by just computer algorithms, but the two best hybrid strategies were faster than what the quickest computers had been able to achieve working alone. “I was completely amazed when we saw the results,” says Sherson.

http://www.nature.com/ne...cs-computer-game-1.19725

I heard about this on the nature podcast yesterday, cool stuff.
They also mentioned a game that helps with protein folding and another one to do with nuerons I can't remember the specifics though.