by MathPickle | Feb 13, 2020 |
The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine (2-5 players; 20 minutes; ages 10+) The Crew is the best cooperative gaming experience since Hanabi. It is a trick taking card game in which everyone must work together to ensure that certain players win tricks containing certain...
by MathPickle | Jan 24, 2019 |
1754 Conquest (2-4 players; 60 minutes; ages 10+) 1754 is one of a brilliant series of war games – all using the same base mechanic: Each round the turn order is revealed randomly. So this turn the British regulars may go first, but next round its the French...
by MathPickle | Aug 22, 2015 |
Perilous Pipes is an awesome puzzle with a beautiful set of manipulatives. For kindergarten and grade 1 students I show a solution and ask them to recreate it. This is a highly valuable activity akin to following lego instructions to build something, but a little bit...
by MathPickle | Aug 19, 2015 |
King of Tokyo is a most engaging, beautiful game – with great monsters and fun cartoon-style humour mid-1900s – style. The game itself is elegantly designed with reasonably simple rules. It contains too much luck for some people. On the right...
by MathPickle | Aug 19, 2015 |
In Kindergarten and Grade 1 I use Utopia to get students thinking about patterns. The first pattern I want to emphasize is that exactly one on the four utopian buildings is in each row and column. Some students even in these younger grades are capable of solving the...
