by MathPickle | Sep 4, 2016 |
Ingenious (1-4 players; 45 minutes; ages 7+) I really like this colourful and strategic game that children (even much younger than the recommended age of 10) can jump into and enjoy. Scoring requires that students count up similar patterns in all six directions, but...
by MathPickle | Sep 4, 2016 |
Codenames (2-8 players; 20 minutes; ages 10+) I am not a word game person. While I respect scrabble, it is just not my kind of game because the memory requirements are so high. It is therefore with great surprise that I am naming a word game as MathPickle’s 2016...
by MathPickle | Sep 4, 2016 |
Isle of Skye (2-5 players; 40 minutes; ages 8+) Isle of Skye is one of those pearls that used old game mechanics (from the excellent game Carcassonne) and polished them up into a game of high replayability. Parts of the game have simultaneous actions from all...
by MathPickle | Aug 12, 2016 |
Imagine a spider going for a morning walk around the web. At each intersection he rolls a dice (carefully so it doesn’t stick) to determine the next direction. If the dice point him towards an intersection already visited – he rolls again. How...
by MathPickle | Jul 28, 2016 |
Armenian rugs cover the floor – sometimes laying atop each other. A whole lot of puzzles arise from trying to find the shape and placement of these rugs. PS. The photo is of the oldest pile rug to be discovered – 2500 years old. It is Armenian, but was...
