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The library gives you a game

 

The library gives you a game

Thinking “out of the box,” creatively, is essential to meeting challenges. Imagination is a key skill in finding solutions to problems that we have often spent hours or days on.

There are board games that integrate deep mathematical thinking, games that help you develop skills such as multi-step problem solving, spatial reasoning, pattern recognition, resource management, and more:

  • They are encouraged to research, make hypotheses, and draw conclusions.
  • They promote the ability to reason, logic and problem solving.
  • They introduce notions of physics, math, and technology in an experiential and fun way.
  • They exercise skills such as spatial orientation, concentration, patience, cooperation and teamwork, ...

 

And let’s not forget that fun moments increase motivation and performance. For all these reasons, or just for fun, dare to play!

The library gives you a game and invites you to try out the proposals and challenges of various types: individual board games, collaborative games, strategy games, ... Choose what you like best and exercise another way of learning!

What games do we have?

Backgammon

Backgammon: Features   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Strategy
Strategic decision-making
Probability

 

 

Backgammon is a game of chance for two players, where the goal is to remove the pieces from the board before your opponent. 

Luck will smile on you or you will wait to go up little by little your pieces, no rush but no pause 

Bang

Bang! The Wild West Game!: Features   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Resource management
Time management
Strategic decision-making
Deductive reasoning

 

 

In the Wild West the Bandits hunt the Sheriff, the Sheriff hunts the Bandits, and the Renegade hatches his secret plan, ready to join either side. In a little while, the bullets will start buzzing! 

Feel like you're in the Wild West and eliminate your enemies.

BattleshipBattleship:Features   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Spatial reasoning
Strategic thinking
Concentration
 

 

 

Have you ever played Sink the Fleet? Well now you can do it in letter format. Hide your ships and hunt your opponent's.

H5, water... D7, touched and sunk.

 

Carcassonne

Carcassonne: Characteristics   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Resource management
Construction
Strategic decision-making

 

 

 

With easy-to-learn rules, every decision you make during the game affects your chances of winning. By placing tiles, players build roads, cities, and monasteries, and when the tiles run out, the player with the most points wins the game.

Be a farmer, friar, knight or bandit, collect points and be the best.

Catan

Catan: Features   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Resource management 
Time management 
Construction 
Strategic decision-making 
Probability
 

 

The first settlements and the first roads while the fertile lands bring you abundant raw materials.
But immediately space on the island begins to run out and a bitter dispute breaks out over land, resources and power. You will have no choice but to plan shrewdly, trade cunningly and trust your luck! 

Will you be able to plan and optimize the space and towns to get the maximum resources?

Cluedo

Cluedo: Features    How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Logic and deduction
Strategic decision-making
Deductive reasoning

 

 

 

Play detective for a night and find out who the killer is, where and how he killed the victim.

Get out of your everyday life and become a detective. 

Connect 4Connect 4: Features   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Strategic thinking
Pattern recognition
Spatial reasoning

 

 

 

Go up? Diagonally? On the corner? What strategy will you choose to make four in a row?

Can you do 4 online?

Rubik's CubeRubik's Cube: Features   How do you play it? 

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Strategic planning
Spatial conception
Operating memory
Reasoning and cognitive flexibility

Pattern recognition

 

The cube that has been making our heads dance for almost 50 years (thanks Ernő Rubik for inventing it!).

With 43.252.003.274.489.856.000 (approximately 43 quintillion) possible positions, did you know that any of these positions can be resolved with just 20 moves? 

Dare to test yourself with the most popular mechanical puzzle in history!

Yusheng Du holds the current world record for the fastest cube with a time of 3,47 seconds. Do you dare to break this record?

LadiesGo: Features   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Reaction capacity
Strategic thinking
Spatial reasoning

 

 

 

The origin of the checkers is not entirely clear, but there is one basant who claims that it dates back to ancient Persia, while another basant is of the opinion that it is more modern. This last basis, according to the Spanish, is that it is made to conform in Spain, while by the French in France. Everything seems to have been between Valencia and Occitania. 

You will know how to make the combination in order to sacrifice a queen to eat two of the rival?

 

Chess

Chess: Features   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Strategic thinking
Abstract reasoning
Ability to analyze and process information
Ability to concentrate and improve memory
Decision making

 

Have you ever considered that chess helps you learn to solve complex problems? Did you know that playing chess has a positive impact on numerical and verbal skills, and helps to improve memory?

Don't think about it anymore and come move!

You are more than Sicilian defense or of theCatalan opening?

InteractIntelect the crossword game: Features   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Annual report
Spatial reasoning
Resource management
Construction

 

 

Intelect luxe is a crossword game in which you combine randomness in picking letters and skill in composing words to get the highest possible score. 

You know enough Catalan words?

King of Tokyo

King of Tokyo: Features   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Strategic thinking
Resource management

 

 

 

In this game we can be mutant monsters, angry giant robots or great aliens, involved in monumental and chaotic battles to see who will reign in the city of Tokyo. We have to play trying to poke and kick anyone who gets in our way, but how are we going to do it?

be the king of tokyo!

OnitamaOnitama: Characteristics   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Strategic thinking
Resource management

 

 

 

 

Onitama is an elegant and simple game where the goal is to reach the opposite side of the board or eliminate the opponent's central pawn. 

Combine the moves and eliminate the rival master.

Optimus

Optimus: Characteristics   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Probability
Mathematical logic

Resource management

Strategic decision-making

 

 

Optimus rolls the dice, chooses which one suits you best, rolls the square and repeats. You have to be careful when choosing your dice, because the ones left over go to the other players. Optimus is a fast, familiar and highly addictive game!

Roll the dice and get the maximum score!

PaleoPaleo: Characteristics   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Cooperation
Time management
Annual report
Resource management

 

 

Shall we explore? Shall we hunt? Do we make tools? What tasks do we do and how do we share them? In Paleo you will have to decide which tasks to complete in order to overcome the challenges.  

Collaborate to get thecommon goal.

Paris: the City of Light

Paris: Characteristics   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Pattern recognition
Resource management
Spatial reasoning

Competitiveness

 

 

Evening falls on the Seine River and Paris is bathed in the deep reds and cobalt blues of the autumn sunset. The old gas lamps will not be lit today to accompany Parisians on their night walksurns, because after a few moments of starting with a flickering light, the electric bulbs illuminate the cobblestones, the canopies and the facades of the most imposing buildings in Paris.

Optimize your resources so that your houses are always optimized.

-PolisPolis: Characteristics   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Strategic decision-making
Resource management
Competitiveness
Pattern recognition

 

 

Expand the influence of your polis until you gain hegemony. 
How? With alliances, trade and, when there are no other options, force.  

Manage your policy and become the greatest influence of Ancient Greece.

Corridor

Corridor: Characteristics   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Resource management
Strategic thinking
Spatial reasoning
Construction

 

 

Be the first to reach the line opposite the starting line. How are you going to get there first? Block their way by making them change direction, and feel if the case arises.

Plan, outwit your rivals and be the first to reach the opposite side.

Sagrada: A dice picking and stained glass building gameSagrada: Characteristics   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Resource management
Pattern recognition
Probability

 

 

 

Sagrada is an abstract board game, in which players will take on the role of stained glass artists who will try to produce the most beautiful piece to display in Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Família Temple.  

Luck will smile on you and you will be able to build the most beautiful stained glass window or will it all be misfortunes?

Sonora

Sonora: Characteristics   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

dexterity
Competitiveness

 

 

 

Do you like board games, but are you tired of just moving pieces between squares? This is your game, not only will you have to think how to conquer the desert, but you will also need good aim.

Do you have bad aim or will you just say that this is not your game? Play and prove that nothing stops you from winning...

The Red CathedralThe Red Cathedral: Features   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Strategic thinking
Resource management
Probability

 

 

 

Autumn is not the best time to climb a scaffold in Moscow, but it is still much better than winter. Tsar Ivan wants results, and our team will prove that we are the best masons in town. Surely if we finish these decorative arches with the brightest stones, we will be sure to be on the list of trusted workers of the state.  

Be the first to finish the cathedral and pleases Tsar Ivan.

Timeline

Timeline: Features   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Annual report
Concentration

 

 

 

Was Aspirin Invented or Penicillin Discovered Before? What happened first: The calculation of the circumference of the earth, the invention of the signs "+" and "-" or fractions? All this and much more you will discover by playing this game.

You will know how to create the timeline in chronological order?

Tuareg: dates, salt and pepperTuareg: Characteristics   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Resource management
Strategic decision-making

 

 

 

 

Be the leader of a Tuareg tribe. Get the most gold coins merchant with dates, salt and pepper.   

Get your tribe to be rich and prosperous.

veggies

Veggies: Characteristics   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Resource management
Geometry

 

 

 

Present your genre in the best possible way, sell it to your customers, and don't forget about those mice that always make your fist by gnawing on the merchandise.

You will have the best market stall?

walkie talkiesWalkie talkie: Features   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Cooperation
dexterity
Resource management
Time management

 

 

Get the best score by matching letters and colors at full speed in this co-op game of wits and mental agility.   

You will know how to find... a word with H and that it is purple?

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Last update: 06 / 11 / 2023