Why are we doing this?
People in tech work with logic, so how do people improve their logical reasoning? Happily, with games! Practice your developer thinking by playing our brain games.
Strategy and logic
Ohh1 Boolean Logic
Play Mastermind Online Six colours, four pegs - what is the best strategy?
Set Patterns and sets
Azul
It's always easier to play games than to watch a video where someone else explains the rules!
Logic, patterns and strategy
Rush Hour Planning, planning, planning!
Dominion Deckbuilding, probability, strategy
Interpreting Requirements
→The Stroop Effect
Experience the attention level you need to interpret requirements
Longer team games for study groups to play together: practice interpreting requirements and communicating in code.
→Codenames Decode your team
This is a (safely) stressful game that requires the Spymaster to take responsibility for the team’s success or failure. To succeed the Spymaster must put themselves in the shoes of their team of Operatives, and the Operatives team must work together to do the same with the Spymaster.
→Telephone Interpret your colleagues
This empathy-building game requires you to interpret and express someone else’s words and then see how your own words and pictures are interpreted. To be played in a group of 5, maximum, which takes 8-10 minutes.
A Telephone game in Normal Mode with 5 people takes approximately 10 minutes with the drawing/answering part. Don't have groups of more than 5.
Link to the coursework https://webgamesonline.com/mastermind/index.php
Why are we doing this? People in tech work with logic, so how do people improve their logical reasoning? Happily, with games! Practice your developer thinking by playing our brain games.
Strategy and logic Ohh1 Boolean Logic Play Mastermind Online Six colours, four pegs - what is the best strategy? Set Patterns and sets Azul It's always easier to play games than to watch a video where someone else explains the rules!
Logic, patterns and strategy Rush Hour Planning, planning, planning! Dominion Deckbuilding, probability, strategy Interpreting Requirements →The Stroop Effect Experience the attention level you need to interpret requirements Longer team games for study groups to play together: practice interpreting requirements and communicating in code.
→Codenames Decode your team This is a (safely) stressful game that requires the Spymaster to take responsibility for the team’s success or failure. To succeed the Spymaster must put themselves in the shoes of their team of Operatives, and the Operatives team must work together to do the same with the Spymaster.
→Telephone Interpret your colleagues This empathy-building game requires you to interpret and express someone else’s words and then see how your own words and pictures are interpreted. To be played in a group of 5, maximum, which takes 8-10 minutes.
A Telephone game in Normal Mode with 5 people takes approximately 10 minutes with the drawing/answering part. Don't have groups of more than 5.
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