Questions tagged [teaching]

Techniques for teaching, learning, and improving one's skill.

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How can I teach other people game rules?

I am a game enthusiast. I mostly enjoy board games, card games and things like party games that require no preparations. My friends know that about me, and they seem to treat me as an official Rules Explainer; if there are some new people willing to…
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How can I use Board Games to help learn English?

I have set two goals here: Introduce my wife to board gaming Improve her English. Does anyone have personal experience with similar goals that could recommend a best course of action?
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Organizing a game night with non-gamers?

My wife and I want to organize a game night. Most of our friends like to play board games - they are familiar with games like Settlers of Catan and Ticket to Ride. However we are more adventurous. Besides making new friends, what are some ideas for…
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Advanced heuristics in Pentomino

The game of Pentomino is a tiling puzzle game played on a grid. A Pentomino piece is a shape of five non-diagonally connected tiles. There are 12 unique pieces (ignoring rotation/reflection). The goal of the game is to fill the board with the…
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