Hyewon Ji's Blog: Having fun with brain board games

A board game is a game that involves counters or peices moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. Games can be based on pure strategy, chance (e.g. rolling dice) or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal that a player aims to achieve.

Two of the my favorite board games are Monopoly and Word Scrabble Game. When I was a student in elementry academic school, I usually played these games with my teacher and friends. At that time, these games were really fun and interesting games. I learned many things from these games. I could figure out how I make strategy well and earn more money with houses and hotels, buildings, and collecting rent.

Monopoly is an American-originated board game originally published by Parker Brothers.
Subtitled "The Fast-Dealing Property Trading Game," the game is named after the economic concept of monopoly — the domination of a market by a single entity.Players move around the game board buying or trading properties, developing their properties with houses and hotels, and collecting rent from their opponents, the ultimate goal being to drive them into bankruptcy.

Also, brain game is scrabble word game. After I played a lot this game, I could learn and memorise a lot of words in English. Therefore, it is very educational and helpful game ,also we can learn words without even realizing it.

Word scrabble game is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a gameboard marked with a 15×15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary.

Word games are generally engaged as a source of entertainment, but have been found to serve an educational purpose as well. For instance, young children can find enjoyment playing modestly competitive games such as Hangman , while naturally developing important language skills like spelling.

Therefore, it is a great way to build the foundation skills that today's elementary school curriculum requires. Children will themselves work to develop their focus and language skills with it.

A game of Scrabble in progress

The name of the game spelled out in game tiles from the English-language version. Each tile is marked with their point value, with a blank tile—the game's equivalent of a wild card—played as the word's first letter. The blank tile is worth zero points.