Parker Brothers (1)

I loved this when I first bought it, heartily recommended it to others and even lent out my copy, which I finally have back.

It is a fascinating discourse on the old topic of emotions vs logic; and how we make decisions with our guts that, particularly in a complex information rich world, may well be just plain wrong. And the scariest thing of all, confirmation bias, is that we will actually process things we don't agree with with different parts of our brain to the ones we do agree with. show more There is virtually no chance of logic putting us back on the "right" track.

Fascinating. show less

For players 8+. ~15 minutes per game.

A pack of Scrabble Slam comes with 50 cards, one letter on each side of the card. The flip side letter is printed in the corner. The game starts when a player picks a word with four letters and lays out the cards to form that word. Instead of taking turns, whichever player has a card that would make a new four letter word lays that card down. Now, the other players have to transform that word.

For example, if the starting word was “hold,” the next show more player could put down an “m” and make “mold,” and the next player could put down an “i” and make “mild.” Play continues until a player has put down all of their cards.

This game is fast-paced, competitive, and vocabulary building. Children will light up as they think of new words and the race is on.

Play the game with children younger than eight by lessening the competition: make the goal for everyone to lay down all their cards. The adult can focus on asking children to think of rhymes or vowel flips that would change the word. Try playing the game with younger children by using three letter words instead of four.

Delight kids with a new game to inspire a love of words. Highly recommended. show less

A game the boys love to play in a box that I love.

2-8 player(s), 60-180 min.