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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?

High voltage

Adventurers on the train: Characteristics   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Resource management
Decision making

 

 

 

Put yourself in charge of an electricity company and compete with other companies to supply electricity to the whole country.

This is a capital management game. You will have to optimize the money you have to invest as much as possible, bearing in mind that these investments must be profitable.

Learn to invest and make your capital profitable!

Take it home and play!

adventurers to the train

Adventurers on the train: Characteristics   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Strategic thinking
Resource management
Decision making

 

 

Choose your cards and build the best routes to collect destination tickets and win this strategy game. The instructions are simple and the path, fascinating!

The adventure begins! Travelers, get on the train!

Take it home and play!

Brass: Lancashire

Brass Lancashire: Characteristics   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Strategic thinking
Resource management
Decision making

 

 

Use the best strategy and be one of the entrepreneurs who competed in and around Lancashire during England's Industrial Revolution. Transport yourself to the Canal and Railroad Age and build industries across the map.

Travel to the XNUMXth century and make your fortune by building cotton mills, iron foundries, coal mines, shipyards and ports!

 

The first version of the game got a nomination for the Golden Geek Award and was a finalist in theInternational Gamers Award (2008)

 

Take it home and play!

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

 

 

 

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?
 

Dune: EmpireDune: Features   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Resource management
Decision making
Strategic thinking

 

 

 

Control the universe. Now that the Great Houses of the Landsraad have joined forces and spies, who will you influence and who will you betray? The war is coming and Arrakis - Dune, the desert planet, is the epicebetween The power of the Empire can be yours, but you can't get it through war alone...play your cards right.

In this game inspired by the elements and characters of Dune, (both the movie with the literary series) you'll have to use the deckbuilding system to give a new approach to the traditional worker placement mechanic.

The fate of the Empire is in your hands!

Take it home and play!

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!

Teachers! Playing chess is a great way to introduce STEM, STEAM and Common Core criteria, do we put it into practice?

GoGo: Features   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Mathematical reasoning
Concentration
Development of hypotheses and strategy

 

 

 

Two-player strategy game from China. According to legend, it was Emperor Yao who invented it to develop his son's mental capacity and train him to rule the country.

What if we make it the engineers who are in a position to rule the world? Come and play!

If you are a strategist, this game is for you!

Take it home and play!

Werewolves of Castronegro

Werewolves of Castronegro: Characteristics   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Logical thinking
Narrative skills
Strategic planning

 

 

 

Game of intrigue and suspicion that becomes more dangerous at night! Put yourself in the shoes of Castronegro's neighbors and devise strategies to free the town from the plague of murderous werewolves among you.

Who has become a werewolf? Who can be the next victim? Will you be skilled enough to figure it out?

Ideal for large groups!

Take it home and play!

Kakuro

Chess: Features   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Logical thinking
Concentration and patience
Reformulation of strategies and management of frustration

 

 

Dare yourself with this puzzle, a logical puzzle reminiscent of crosswords but with numbers. Find the right numbers to reach the sum of the digits that appear in the horizontally divided cells. 

You can do it without repeating any digit in the same row?
 

Mystery briefingMystery Briefing: Features   How do you play it?

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Ability to analyze and process information
Decision making
Information processing speed
Reformulation of strategies and management of frustration
creative thinking

 

 

Handmade card game to promote creative thinking.

You have been summoned to CreaLab under the pretext of developing a new product. Without worrying about anything else, you go to the library's creative space with the illusion of giving your best, creatively speaking. But when you arrive, you are in for a surprise…

...there is nothing concrete, you don't know what you have to design or for whom, and it will be random who hits the avalanche of ideas flooding your head right now...

A single question before you: "What would you do with it?”, a deck of cards face down and a timer that has started its countdown…

 

You will be able to adjust to the given features and time, and end up presenting a original design worthy of being hired by a company?

 

rummy

Rummi Classic: Features   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Logical-mathematical reasoning
Attention and concentration
Information processing speed

 

 

What happens when a country like Romania is banned from playing cards? So, new games like this are born ... a card game, where the cards are wooden / plastic cards. "Made the law, made the trap" is what Ephraim Hertzano probably thought when he invented it around 1940. 

If you master rami or remigio, you will love this game too!
 

Take it home and play!

Solitari

Solitaire: Features   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Concentration
Strategic thinking
Pattern recognition

 

 

 

A game that challenges you to overcome your own strategy. Solitaire is a classic of wit games: 33 holes, balls that jump over themselves until there is only one left ... concentrate and you'll get it!

Play it while you wait for the rest of your study group to arrive at the library!

Take it home and play!

Sudoku

Sudoku: Features   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Logical thinking
Concentration and patience
Reformulation of strategies and management of frustration

 

 

 

A grid of 9x9 square blocks, a logic-based combinatorial puzzle. The hobby that can make your head dance full of numbers ... designed to solve it individually when presented on a sheet, we turn it around and bet on offering it in 3 of its variants in the library blackboard so that you can complete it among all the people who pass by our spaces. 

We will propose new ones every week!

Make your way to the group work rooms and see how it has evolved since leaving!
 

Team up!Team Up: Features   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Spatial perception
Cooperative work
creative thinking
Adaptability

 

 

A pallet, some boxes and a gift for the organization. Team UP! is a cooperative puzzle game. The concept is simple: stack boxes on a pallet in the most compact way possible. Multiple solutions for the same goal where everyone's contribution counts.

The perfect solution exists, but will you find it?

Take it home and play!

Virus!

Virus! : Characteristics    How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Reformulation of strategies and management of frustration
creative thinking
Logical thinking

 

 

 

Face a pandemic and compete to be the first person to eradicate the virus with this strategy card game. The goal is to isolate a healthy body and prevent outbreaks of experimental viruses that have escaped from the laboratory from spreading.

This game has no ethics...anything goes for victory!

The most contagious card game!

Take it home and play!

We can playWe Can Play: Features   How do you play it?

 

Skills that are worked on by playing:

Ability to analyze and process information
Attention capacity
Historical learning
Strategic thinking

 

 

A dynamic card game with which we will discover great stories of women who have changed the world.

The goal is to form a timeline. You will be able to take risks in order to advance faster, but you will also be able to lose cards.

Who will manage to form the timeline first?

Take it home and play!

The books that accompany the collection

Expand your knowledge of some of these games with the following books in the library:

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Last update: 12 / 01 / 2024