[TECH ED] Brain Games

### 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](https://0hh1.com/) Boolean Logic
- [Play Mastermind Online](https://webgamesonline.com/mastermind/index.php) Six colours, four pegs - what is the best strategy?
- [Set](https://setwithfriends.com/) Patterns and sets
- [Azul](http://boardwebgames.com/rojo/)

It's always easier to play games than to watch a video where someone else explains the rules!

## Logic, patterns and strategy

- [Rush Hour](https://www.crazygames.com/game/rush-hour-online) Planning, planning, planning!
- [Dominion](https://dominion.games/) Deckbuilding, probability, strategy

## Interpreting Requirements

**→[The Stroop Effect](https://www.lenstore.co.uk/vc/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](https://codenames.game/)** 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](https://garticphone.com/)** 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.

### Maximum time in hours

0

### How to get help

Come and play in Slack!

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