Ender first shows how smart he is when he beats the fantasy game. The fantasy game was set up for him to fail, but he does not think like everyone else, and he figured a way out to beat it anyway. The next thing is, he can watch people play a game, and learn what they are doing, and the rules the computer was following. He showed this skill, by asking one of the bigger boys he had been watching play, to play the best two out of three in one of the games he was playing, Ender ended up winning in the end. “Bout time they replaced this machine. Getting so any pin brain can beat it now.”(Card 47) This is what the older boy said after Ender beat, but he was not a pin brain, he was really smart, but nobody knew that, but the