RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

BRAIN GAMES

Words:

• Scrabble              *Bananagrams

• Boggle                 *Apples to Apple

• Scattergories.       *Headbanz

• Mad Libs.              *Balderdash

• Story Cubes

Math/Number Sense:

• Dominoes.             *Yahtzee

• War- with cards.     *Prime Climb

Processing Speed:

• Blink                       *Qwirkle

• Blurt                        *Spot It

Memory:

• Uno                         *Concentration

• Crazy Eights            *Go Fish

Strategy/Problem Solving/Reasoning:

• Chess                       *Blokus

• Battleship                 *Guess Who

• Mastermind              *Othello

• Jenga                       *Set

• Gobblet Gobblers.   *Gobblet

• Tangrams                  *Quarto

• What's My Rule?      *Metaforms

• Clue   

• ONLINE Smart Games- SET, Sudoku, Tetravex, Memory

Social Cognition:

• Moods

• Emotion Charades

• In general, board games help children learn important social skills such as waiting, turn taking, sharing, how to cope with losing, making conversation, problem solving, compromising, collaborating and being flexible.