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Famous board games history: the invention of Scrabble

Posted by: Luk on: October 29, 2009

Scrabble is probably one of the most famous board games ever invented with over 100 million sets sold in all the world.
Today everyone knows Scrabble and have played this linguistic clever game once at least, but few people know the real story of its invention.
In fact not everyone knows that Scrabble before becoming a famous [...]

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Ecofriendly gifts to teach ecology to our kids

Posted by: Luk on: September 24, 2009

Ecofriendly gifts could be a great way to teach children an ecologic view.
I think that everyone of us knows how important are renewable energies to reduce the earth pollution and try to preserve our ecosystem.
Now days there are a lot of  ecofriendly gifts that work with solar energy and can be given to kids to [...]

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Role games and business: the lifelong learning program.

Posted by: Luk on: July 1, 2009

The training options that a company has for an effective personnel training include various topics:
- Play an active role
- Release a best share compared to its potential
- Get a better personal satisfaction
- Socialize on collective course to reach the knowledge
This attitude is encouraged by the needs and the goals of collective courses of corporate training.
Edutainment [...]

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Trust games for a cooperative team building project

Posted by: Luk on: June 25, 2009

Recreational attitude has an eclectic and a multiform nature, a fluid ad dynamic structure that can change anytime when different inputs or actions are involved in the game.
Games dynamics studies have to focus their attention on social and psychological aspects involved during the games’ performances.
During a football game, a tennis match, a chess game, or [...]

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Games and economy: the prisoner’s dilemma.

Posted by: Luk on: June 23, 2009

Games theory is a disciple that studies the problem of the interdependence between the players of the same game.
The behaviour analysis of game players is called strategic interaction and is used in Business studies to understand complex aspects of some kinds of markets and to build descriptive models based on subjects’ behaviours in uncertain situations.
For [...]

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Clever Games and the social development of the child

Posted by: Luk on: June 18, 2009

Games are very important during the child’s growth, and for this reason is very important promote clever gaming activities to our kids. On a social level, children start to develop their gaming activities in three different stages:

Individual games; is typical of new born babies  and it doesn’t involve any social interaction;
Collateral games, children between [...]

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John Lennon views on mind games

Posted by: Luk on: May 30, 2009

Today I would like to make a tribute to a music legend of the past: John Lennon, probably one of the greatest artist of the last century, and to one of his best soloist songs:  Mind Games, which is also the title  of the album released in 1973 that bring back John Lennon’s music [...]

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Played at the pub: games and beers in the UK

Posted by: Luk on: May 29, 2009

In the United Kingdom we have about 60.000 pubs,  some of them with a long history and tradition. Since old times people always played games in the pubs,  between a drink and another, English people always find Some time to play traditional pubs games such as darts, board games, quizzes, mind games, card games, role [...]

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What we can learn from clever games

Posted by: Luk on: May 26, 2009

Modern board games are thought and developed to improve or brain skills and mind activities:
other than fun enjoinment and pleasure, those clever games are one of the best way to learn about our history, literacy, to develop a goal motivation and general knowledge, to build a
Intuitively thought, to take risks and forecast the consequences, to [...]

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Role game: only for creative people

Posted by: Luk on: May 16, 2009

I would like to start this new column, to explain and enlighten anyone interested to that particular form of gaming called role game.
Role games are now very popular all over the world. More than 1000 games were published after the first launch in 1974 of “Dungeons & Dragons”, the father of all modern role games; [...]

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