Top 5 Set Collection games to test strategic thinking & planning abilities

On the 2nd day before Christmas, we want to share our top 5 Set Collection games. In these games, the value of items is dependent on being part of a set; for example, scoring according to groups of a certain quantity or variety. For example, players can develop houses or hotels in Monopoly from the same colour group to get more money. These games are excellent to test strategic thinking and planning abilities.

5. Ticket to Ride: Players collect cards of various train cars to claim railway routes in America. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Additional points come to those who fulfill Destination Tickets – goal cards that connect distant cities; and to the player who builds the longest continuous route. It is the epitome of a "gateway game" -- simple enough to be taught in a few minutes, with enough action and tension to keep new players involved and in the game for the duration.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/9209/ticket-ride

4. Hanabi: is Japanese for "fireworks"—is a cooperative game which players try to create the perfect fireworks show by placing the cards in the right order. For each color, the players try to place a row in the correct order from 1–5. Sounds easy, right? Well, not quite, as in this game your cards are visible only to other players. To assist other players in playing a card, you give hints regarding the numbers or the colors of their cards. Players must act as a team to avoid errors and to finish the fireworks display.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/98778/hanabi

3. Jaipur: You are one of the most powerful traders in the city of Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, but that's not enough for you because only the merchant with two "seals of excellence" will have the privilege of being invited to the Maharaja's court. Therefore you will try to do better than your competitor by buying, exchanging, and selling at better prices, all while keeping an eye on both your camel herds.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/54043/jaipur

2. Tokaido:  Each player is a traveler crossing the "East sea road", one of the most magnificent roads of Japan. While traveling, you will meet people, taste fine meals, collect beautiful items, discover great panoramas, and visit temples and wild places, when everyone has arrived at the end of the road you'll have to be the most initiated traveler – be the one who discovered the most interesting and varied things. Players must choose whether to advance slowly to get more turns, or travel more rapidly to beat other players to their desired action spaces.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/123540/tokaido

1. The Castles of Burgundy: The game is set in the Burgundy region of France. Each player takes on the role of an aristocrat, controlling a small princedom. While playing they aim to build settlements and powerful castles, practice trade along the river, exploit silver mines, and use the knowledge of travelers. The game is about taking settlement tiles from the game board and placing them into their princedom.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/84876/castles-burgundy

Top 5 Auction/Bidding games to improve communication & critical thinking skills

On the 3rd day before Christmas, we want to share our top 5 Auction/Bidding games that we love playing. This mechanic requires you to bid on items in an auction of goods in order to enhance your position in the game. These goods allow players future actions or improve a position. Besides using critical thinking and logical thinking skills, auctions test our ability to communicate and convince skillfully get what we want or to dissuade someone from achieving their goals.

5. Condottiere: These are hired swords contracted to fight for individual city-states known as a condotta. To do this players auction off different provinces on the board and bid on these provinces with a hand of cards representing mercenaries, seasons, scarecrows, and political figures. Unlike standard auctions in which only the highest bidder loses their bid, in Condottiere every player loses their bid. Players are, in effect, bidding the number of troops they are willing to lose in order to win a province. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/112/condottiere

4. No Thanks! is a card game where players have 2 options: play one of their chips to avoid picking up the current face-up card or pick up the face-up card (along with any chips played on that card). However, the choices aren't so easy as players compete to have the lowest score at the end of the game. Runs of 2 or more cards only count as the lowest value in the run, so look for connectors. Each chip is worth -1 point, but they can be even more valuable by allowing you to avoid drawing an unwanted card.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12942/no-thanks

3. Power Grid: The game is to supply the most cities with power by marking pre-existing routes between cities for connection, and then bidding against each other to purchase the power plants to power their cities. However, as plants are purchased, more efficient plants become available, so by merely purchasing, you're potentially allowing others access to superior equipment. Additionally, players must acquire the raw materials needed to power said plants, making it a constant struggle to upgrade for efficiency while retaining wealth to expand your network.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2651/power-grid

2. Modern Art: Buying and selling paintings can be a very lucrative business. 5 different artists have produced a bunch of paintings, and it's the player's task to be both the buyer and the seller, hopefully making a profit in both roles. He does this by putting a painting from his hand up for auction each turn. He gets the money if some other player buys it, but must pay the bank if he buys it for himself. After each round, paintings are valued by the number of paintings of that type that were sold.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/118/modern-art

1. For Sale: is a quick, fun game nominally about buying and selling real estate. During the game's two distinct phases, players first bid for several buildings then, after all buildings have been bought, sell the buildings for the greatest profit possible.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/172/sale

Top 5 Deduction games to test your logic and critical thinking skills

On the 4th day before Christmas, we want to share our top 5 Deduction games that we love playing. Players are trying to determine the identity of hidden information based on clues. A deduction game many are familiar with is Clue. Besides deduction skills, it also tests logic and critical thinking skills.

5. Sherlock 13: Players take the role of a detective, trying to unmask the famous thief Arsene Lupin, who is among them in disguise. Using clues the players try to figure out which disguise Arsene has chosen by asking questions to gather new evidence.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/149869/sherlock-13

4. Spyfall: is a party game unlike any other, one in which you get to be a spy and try to understand what's going on around you. At the start of each round all players receive cards showing the same location — a casino, a traveling circus, or even a space station — except one player receives a card that says "Spy" instead. Players then start asking each other questions trying to guess who among them is the spy. The spy doesn't know where he is, so he has to listen carefully.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/166384/spyfall

3. Codenames: The game is divided into 2 teams with a team leader. At the beginning of the game, there will be 25 cards on the table with different words. Each card has a corresponding position, representing different colors. Only the team leader can see the color of the card and prompt according to the words, let his team members find out the cards of their corresponding colors, and find out all the cards of their own colors to win.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/178900/codenames

2. Love Letter: Your goal is to get your love letter into Princess Annette's hands while deflecting the letters from competing suitors. From a deck with only sixteen cards, each player starts with only one card in hand. On a turn, you draw one card, and play one card, trying to expose others and knock them from the game.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/129622/love-letter

1. Deception: Murder in Hong Kong In the game, players take on the roles of investigators attempting to solve a murder case – but there's a twist. The killer is one of the investigators! Each player's role and team are randomly assigned at the start of play. While the Investigators attempt to deduce the truth, the murderer's team must deceive and mislead.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/156129/deception-murder-hong-kong

#deduction #training #experientiallearning #learnbydoing

Top 5 Card Drafting games for strategic thinking & analytical skills

On the 5th day before Christmas, we want to share our top 5 Card Drafting games that we love playing. Drafting is used in games in which players pick cards (or tiles, resources, dice) from a common pool to gain an advantage or to assemble collections that are used to meet objectives within the game. We like to play these games when reinforcing strategic thinking and analytical skills.

5. Guillotine: The French Revolution is famous in part for the use of the guillotine to put nobles to death. As executioners pandering to the masses, the players are trying to behead the least popular nobles. However, players are given cards which will manipulate the line order right before 'harvesting,' which is what makes the game interesting.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/116/guillotine

4. Sushi Go!: You are eating at a sushi restaurant and trying to grab the best combination of sushi dishes as they whiz by. Score points for collecting the most sushi rolls or making a full set of sashimi. Dip your favorite nigiri in wasabi to triple its value! And once you've eaten it all, finish your meal with all the pudding you've got! https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/133473/sushi-go

3. Century: Spice Road The first in a series of games that explores the history of each century with spice-trading as the theme for the first installment. Players are caravan leaders who travel the famed silk road to deliver spices to the far reaches of the continent for fame and glory. Each turn, players perform actions. The last round is triggered once a player has claimed their fifth victory point card, then whoever has the most victory points wins.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/209685/century-spice-road

2. Splendor: It is a game of chip-collecting and card development. Players are merchants of the Renaissance trying to buy gem mines, means of transportation, shops—all in order to acquire the most prestige points. If you're wealthy enough, you might even receive a visit from a noble at some point, which of course will further increase your prestige.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/148228/splendor

1. 7 Wonders: You are the leader of one of the 7 great cities of the Ancient World. Gather resources, develop commercial routes, and affirm your military supremacy. 7 Wonders is a card development game. Some cards have immediate effects, while others provide bonuses or upgrades later in the game. Some cards provide discounts on future purchases.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/68448/7-wonders

Top 5 Push Your Luck games to test Risk-Reward tradeoffs

On the 6th day before Christmas, we want to share our top 5 Push Your Luck games. Players must decide between settling for existing gains, or risking them all for further rewards, in a game with some amount output randomness or luck. We like to use these games to test risk-reward tradeoffs and experiment with probability and statistics.

5. Lost Cities: It is a card game where you are trying to gain points by mounting profitable archaeological expeditions to the different sites represented by the colored suits of cards. Cards played to expeditions must be in ascending order, but they need not be consecutive.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/50/lost-cities

4. Deep Sea Adventure: A group of explorers hoping to get rich quickly heads out to recover treasures from some undersea ruins. They're all rivals, but their budgets force them all to share a single rented submarine. In the rented submarine, they all have to share a single tank of air, as well. If they don't get back to the sub before they run out of air, they'll drop all their treasure.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/169654/deep-sea-adventure

3. King of Tokyo: You play mutant monsters, gigantic robots, and strange aliens—all of whom are destroying Tokyo and whacking each other in order to become the one and only King of Tokyo. At the start of each turn, you roll dice, which could be Victory Points, Energy, Heal, and Attack. The fiercest player will occupy Tokyo, and earn extra victory points, but that player can't heal and must face all the other monsters alone!

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/70323/king-tokyo

2. BANG! The Dice Game: Players take a role card that secretly places them on a team: the Sheriff and deputies, outlaws, and renegades. The Sheriff and deputies need to kill the outlaws, the outlaws win by killing the Sheriff, and the renegades want to be the last players alive in the game. On a turn, each player can roll the five dice up to three times, using the results of the dice to shoot neighboring players, increase the range of his shots, heal his (or anyone else's) life points, or put him in range of the Indians. Play continues until one team meets its winning condition!

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/143741/bang-dice-game

1. Archaeology: The New Expedition You are an archaeologist working the dig sites of the Egyptian desert. Search for the right pieces to complete torn parchments, broken pots, and other priceless artifacts. Explore an ancient pyramid in the hope of uncovering a huge stash of treasure! Sell your treasures to the museum at just the right time for maximum profit. But beware, the desert also has its dangers! A devastating sandstorm can throw your expedition into disarray, and cunning thieves lurk around the dig site ready to steal your prize discovery!

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/191300/archaeology-new-expedition

Top 5 Escape Room games for collaboration and logic solving

On the 7th day before Christmas, we want to share our top 5 Escape Room games that we love playing. Escape room board games reproduce the experience of a physical escape room by providing a series of puzzles inside a game box. The list below is a little different as some of the games below are a family of games and not individual escape room games. We enjoy these games for the collaborative experience and elaborate logic solving elements.

5. Escape Room: The Game This box includes 4 unique 60 minute escape room puzzles that will test your cranial skills. Use images, gears, words, keys, shapes, maps and more to solve the 4 stages within each escape room. An analog timer on the Chrono Decoder centerpiece incessantly counts down, emitting ominous noises to create an environment shut out from the outside world.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/204836/escape-room-game

4. Exit: The Game is a series of puzzle games modeled after escape rooms. Players discover more and more objects, crack codes, solve puzzles and get closer to the treasure piece by piece. Unusual paths also have to be followed. The material can be kinked, written on or torn. Once the secret is revealed, the event game cannot be played a second time.

3. Escape Room In A Box: The Werewolf Experiment has all the excitement of the “room” crammed into a box so players can have the same immersive and challenging experience in a one time play table top game in the comfort of their own home. A group of people has only 1 hour to work together to find clues, solve puzzles, and crack the codes that will unlock the antidote and keep them from turning into werewolves!

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/188720/escape-room-box-werewolf-experiment

2. Unlock!: Is a series of cooperative card games inspired by escape rooms that uses a simple system which allows you to search scenes, combine objects, and solve riddles. Play Unlock! to embark on great adventures, while seated at a table using only cards and a companion app that can provide clues, check codes, monitor time remaining, etc.

1. Deckscape: It is also a series of cooperative games inspired by real escape rooms in which a group of people are "trapped" inside a room full of puzzles and odd items. The goal of the game is to solve puzzles, understand the plot of the story, and make intelligent use of the items provided in order to exit from the room as quickly as possible.

Top 5 Area Majority games for strategy and planning

On the 8th day before Christmas, we want to share our top 5 Area Majority games. These games allow players to occupy a space and gain benefits based on their proportional presence in the space ala Risk or the classic game Go. It is the de facto mechanic when playing any wargame. It is a popular mechanic as it is easy to understand and nostalgic to most. Very useful during sessions about strategy and planning.

5. Memoir '44: It’s a historical game where players face-off in stylized battles of some of the most famous historic battles of World War II including Omaha Beach, Pegasus Bridge, Operation Cobra and the Ardennes. Each scenario mimics the historical terrain, troop placements and objectives of each army. Commanders deploy troops through Command and Tactic cards, applying the unique skills of his units -- infantry, paratrooper, tank, artillery, and even resistance fighters -- to their greatest strength.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/10630/memoir-44

4. Las Vegas: Players draw money cards and place it in different “casinos” making some more desirable.  Each player has dice of different colors which they take turns rolling. When you roll your dice, you can choose to place them on the relevant casino cards. All players take turns doing this until all the dice have been used. Finally, the player with the most dice on each casino card takes the money associated with it.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/117959/las-vegas

3: Small World: Players vie for conquest and control of a world that is simply too small to accommodate them all. Small World is inhabited by a zany cast of characters such as dwarves, wizards, amazons, orcs, even humans, who use their troops to occupy territory and conquer adjacent lands in order to push the other races off. Picking the right combination and special powers, players rush to expand their empires and must also know when to push their own civilization into decline and ride a new one to victory!

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/40692/small-world

2. Melee: Each player starts the game with a Castle, one foot soldier and 15 gold coins. The game begins with a draft which you purchase units (soldiers, knights, camps and catapults) and bid on special abilities that will enhance your income, attack, or other options in the game. The game is then played over 4 seasons and in each turn players simultaneously choose one of three potential actions: (a) tax, (b) build new units, or (c) move and attack.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/165657/melee

1. Twilight Struggle:  A former #1 game in BBG (Board Game Geek – the de facto bible in the board gaming industry!) It is a card driven game about the Cold World. The game map is a world map of the period, whereon players move units and exert influence in attempts to gain allies and control for their superpower. Decision-making is a challenge; how to best use one's cards and units given consistently limited resources?

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12333/twilight-struggle

Top 5 Tile Placement games for spatial awareness & logical thinking

On the 9th day before Christmas, we want to share our top 5 Tile Placement games. Currently the most popular mechanic in board gaming, tile placement as a mechanic has caught the world by storm where most games have a tile placement mechanic in them. These games feature placing a physical piece of cardboard (called the tile) to score points or trigger abilities, often based on adjacent pieces or pieces in the same group/cluster, and keying off non-spatial properties like color, "feature completion“ and cluster size. It a great way to create spatial awareness and logic thinking!

5. Carcassonne: The grand daddy of all tile-placement games in which players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent to tiles that have already been played, in such a way that cities are connected. Players are faced with decisions like: "Should I use this tile to expand my city, or should I place it near my opponent instead, giving him a hard time to complete their project and score points?" Since players place only one tile and have the option to place one meeple on it, turns proceed quickly as it is a game full of options and possibilities.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/822/carcassonne

4. Patchwork: one of the great (designer) Uwe Rosenberg’s  earliest tile placement games where 2 players compete to build the most aesthetic (and high-scoring) patchwork quilt on a personal 9x9 game board. A player either purchases one of 3 patches standing clockwise of the spool or passes. To purchase a patch, you pay the cost in buttons, move the spool to that patch's location in the circle, add the patch to your game board (quilt), then advance your time token on the time track a number of spaces equal to the time shown on the patch. You're free to place the patch anywhere on your board that doesn't overlap other patches. An absolute genius of a game!

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/163412/patchwork

3. Alhambra: Another classic game where players are acquiring buildings to be placed within their Alhambra city complex. Money in Alhambra comes in 4 different currencies and is available in the open money market. The 54 buildings of six types become available for purchase in the building market 4 at a time; one building is available in each of the 4 currencies. The game rewards efficiency, as when a player purchases a building from the market for the exact amount, the player may take another turn.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6249/alhambra

2. Kingdomino:  You are a lord seeking new lands in which to expand your kingdom. You must explore all the lands, including wheat fields, lakes, and mountains, in order to spot the best plots, while competing with other lords to acquire them first. The game uses tiles similar to Dominoes (hence the name!). Each turn, a player will select a new domino to connect to their existing kingdom, making sure at least one of its sides connects to a matching terrain type already in play. The order of who picks first depends on which tile was previously chosen, with better tiles forcing players to pick later in the next round.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/204583/kingdomino

1. Azul: Players take turns drafting colored tiles from suppliers to their player board. Later in the round, players score points based on how they've placed their tiles to decorate the palace. Extra points are scored for specific patterns and completing sets; wasted supplies harm the player's score. The beautiful tiles in the game are based on azulejos (originally white and blue ceramic tiles) based on the Portuguese King Manuel’s Moorish decorative tiles.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/230802/azul

Top 5 Dexterity games for good eye-hand coordination and fun!

On the 10th day before Christmas, we will share our top 5 Dexterity games that we want to play all the time. In dexterity games, players need good physical reflexes and eye hand co-ordination as a determinant of overall success. We can have a bit of fun during training can’t we? Have you tried all of them yet?

5. Lift it!: Players try to build projects depicted on the building cards. Players lift building blocks of different shapes with a crane hook to form the correct structure within the time limit shown on each building card. Each correctly placed block scores a point and additional points are scored if player manages to build the structure correctly within the time limit.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/132497/lift-it

4. Flip Ships: A cooperative dexterity game in which players take on the roles of brave pilots defending their planet from an onslaught of firepower. Flip your ships to take out the encroaching enemies and to take down the powerful mother ship before it's too late.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/223215/flip-ships

3. PitchCar: Is a dexterity games where large, wooden, puzzle-like pieces are used to construct a race track that looks very similar to a slot car track when finished. But instead of electricity, players use finger-flicks to send small pucks around the track, whoever finishes the race first wins!

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/150/pitchcar

2. Coconuts: Players launch coconuts toward a field of cups in the middle of the playing area. Land in a cup, and you get to stack it on your player board; land in a cup on someone else's board, and you get to move it to yours. By playing special "Monkey King Magic" cards, you can force opponents to shoot blind, take long shots, or otherwise bollix their efforts to cup a coconut.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/145639/coconuts

1. Rhino Hero: Players are playing a rhinoceros who is eager to climb a tall building and leap other tall buildings in a single bound. First, though, you need to construct that building by adding walls and roofs to a single building. On a turn, you first place walls on the highest floor, then you choose a roof card in your hand and place it on the wall.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/91514/rhino-hero

Top 5 Negotiations games to be a better negotiator

On the 11th day before Christmas, we want to share our top 5 Negotiations games that we enjoy most at our sessions. In negotiations games, players can make agreements about coordinating action beyond just trading. And agreements may be either binding or non-binding.

5. Bohnanza: In the game, you plant, then harvest bean cards in order to earn coins. Next, you reveal two cards from the deck, and you can then trade these cards as well as any card in your hand for cards from other players. You can even make future promises for cards received! After trading is complete you end your turn by drawing cards from the deck and placing them at the back of your hand.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11/bohnanza

4. I'm the Boss!: Every player is trying to make a deal. Up to 15 deals can be made over the course of the game, but every player cannot be part of every deal. . . so let the negotiations and the FUN begin! Each player who is part of a successful deal will receive a certain amount of money. Complications arise as each player uses their action cards to derail negotiations, insert themselves into a deal, take over the role of boss, and otherwise muck up the smooth flow of deal-making that other players had hoped to achieve.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/115/im-boss

3. Pit: Is an open-outcry commodity trading game. Players offer trades by crying out the number of cards they want to swap but not their identity. The winner of the hand is the first to collect all of one commodity, declaring whatever commodity has been collected. The winner of the hand scores points equal to the value of the commodity, and the winner of the game is the first to 500 points.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/140/pit

2. The Resistance: The game is inspired by Mafia/Werewolf. Players are either Resistance Operatives or Imperial Spies. During rounds, they depend on each other to carry out missions against the Empire. At the same time, they must try to deduce the other players’ identities and gain their trust. Each round begins with discussion. When ready, the Leader entrusts sets of Plans to a certain number of players. Everyone votes on whether or not to approve the assignment. Once an assignment passes, the chosen players secretly decide to Support or Sabotage the mission. Based on the results, the mission succeeds (Resistance wins) or fails (Empire wins).

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41114/resistance

1. Sheriff of Nottingham: Players will not only experience Nottingham as a merchant of the city, but each turn one player will step into the shoes of the Sheriff himself. Players declare goods they wish to bring into the city, goods that are secretly stored in their burlap sack. The Sheriff must then determine who gets into the city with their goods, who gets inspected, and who may have their goods confiscated!

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/157969/sheriff-nottingham

Top 5 Deck-building games for strategic thinking and planning

Let's start a top 5 Game Mechanic games we enjoy for training and fun with the family for the next 12 days (till Christmas!). A game mechanic is basically the rules and style of interaction that guide how a game is played. For example the popular Monopoly game is generally considered a roll and move game - you roll dice and move based on the number of your dice throw (depending on which version and set you own). We shall start with a favorite game mechanic here at ThinkLab - Deck-building games. Deck-building is where players play cards out of individual decks, seeking to acquire new cards and to play through their decks iteratively, improving them over time through card acquisition. We use these games for our strategic thinking and planning sessions. Here's our top 5 Deck-building games:

5. Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game: This game is set in the Marvel Comics universe where players recruit powerful hero cards to add to their deck in order to build a stronger and more resourceful deck to build their recruitment powers (to enlist more heroes) and their fighting ability (to combat the villains who keep popping up to cause trouble). As players fight and defeat villains, they collect those cards, which will be worth points at game's end.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/129437/legendary-marvel-deck-building-game

4. Flip City: In this micro-deckbuilding game, you have no hand at all; instead, you play cards directly from the top of your deck. Each card is double-sided, with each side granting different special bonuses. Play cards directly from the top of your deck to acquire cash and victory points.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/168679/flip-city

3. Star Realms: Star Realms is a fast paced deck-building card game of outer space combat. It combines the fun of a deck-building game with the interactivity of Trading Card Game style combat.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/147020/star-realms

2. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle: A cooperative deck-building game, and it's up to four students to ensure the safety of the school by defeating villains and consolidating their defenses. In the game, players take on the role of a Hogwarts student: Harry, Ron, Hermione or Neville, each with their own personal deck of cards that's used to acquire resources.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/199042/harry-potter-hogwarts-battle

1. Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure: Sneak into an angry dragon's mountain lair to steal precious artifacts. Delve deeper to find more valuable loot. Acquire cards for your deck and watch your thievish abilities grow.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/201808/clank-deck-building-adventure

Just a quick shout out to Dominion, the OG game that started this entire genre called deck-building! We would not get all these other great games if not for the success of Dominion. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218/dominion

Improve cooperation using Coop games

How to improve cooperation and engagement in your team? How about playing a cooperative game? A cooperative game is where the players are all working together to defeat the game, instead of fighting against each other like traditional games like Monopoly, Risk or even chess. There are numerous great coop games available today. Some we would recommend would be Outfoxed! and Ghostbusters: Protect the Barrier for children below 10. For older kids or adults, the games in order of complexity from easier to harder are Hanabi, Forbidden Island, Pandemic, Legends of Andor. These games can be your start to experience how to working together instead of of competing against each other can be more fun. #cooperate #learnbydoing #gamificationoflearning #experientiallearning

https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=15986

Dinosaurs + Legacy Game = Unique fun time for all!

Do you like dinosaurs? Enjoy playing games? Then we have a treat for you! You get to play the iconic roles of the original Jurassic Park in the new game Jurassic World: The Legacy of Isla Nublar. Are you able to run a dinosaur-themed park better than the movie/book? This is a legacy style game - basically an episodic game where your decisions during the game will become permanent changes like character abilities and new rules while the story will change depending on how you play the game. Which means that all games sessions will be unique to the group of people playing it and the game itself will be different for different groups playing. #gamifiedlearning #learnbydoing #legacy #experientiallearning #boardgames

https://www.polygon.com/tabletop-games/22821038/jurassic-world-legacy-of-isla-nublar-preview-kickstarter-launch-date-price

Popular board games from 1930 to 2019

Here's an interesting list of games that were popular from 1930 to 2019. Why not look at what's popular during the year you were born? That could be a reason why you kept playing a particular game when you were a child. 

#learnbydoing #gamifiedlearning #boardgames #gaming

https://www.chron.com/lifestyle/slideshow/Popular-board-games-released-the-year-you-were-201269.php

Digitalisation at Phoon Huat

Want to share an article on digitalisation. Phoon Huat, a traditional baking institution in Singapore, is able to make a successful shift to digitalising it's business. The take away is the company's success comes from creating a trusting environment, implementing small bite-size changes and allowing staff to learn even during office hours! Great job! #phoonhuat #digitalization #singaporebusiness #culturematters

https://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/digital-food-supplier-made-in-singapore-phoon-huat-jtc-industry-connect

Learning empathy with a board game?

Learning and developing empathy through a board game? Yes, it can be done with "Empower Empathy". The game designer (an educational psychologist) created a collaborative superhero game, using her evidence-based strategies in her clinical and research work to teach emotional awareness, socialization skills and the power of empathy. https://lnkd.in/gfEYsDxE #lifeskills #empathymatters #gamifiedlearning #learnthroughplay #boardgames

Christmas is coming

Christmas is coming and what are you going to get? How about board games that fit every age, type and interest? For young ones below 8, we recommend Sushi Go, a simple but cute set collection game https://lnkd.in/gzMDDai5. For teens, how about the co-operative game Pandemic https://lnkd.in/eGVcJBzz? For older ones who like science and creativity we have the wonderful Wingspan https://lnkd.in/g3AfKCB9. And if you want to play along an exciting tactical RPG campaign, why not join forces in Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion https://lnkd.in/gwkSx3U8. #creativity #gamingindustry