Games Guides & Tutorials
Articles, guides and tutorials about games - puzzles, brain games, arcade classics and party games. Featured reading: Barricade Strategy: When to Move, When to Wall, and Which Board to Play; How to Read Emoji Puzzles: A Field Guide to Emoji Rebus Clues; Jigsaw Puzzle Sizes Compared: Which Grid Suits Your Photo and Your Time?; Train Your Short-Term Memory with Code Recall: How Chunking Works.
Barricade Strategy: When to Move, When to Wall, and Which Board to Play
Every wall costs you a step. The skill in Barricade is knowing when that trade is worth it - and how the board size changes the answer.
How to Read Emoji Puzzles: A Field Guide to Emoji Rebus Clues
Every emoji in a puzzle is doing one of four jobs. Learn to spot which, and most clues fall apart in seconds.
Jigsaw Puzzle Sizes Compared: Which Grid Suits Your Photo and Your Time?
A 3×3 is a two-minute break; a 10×10 is an evening. How to match the grid, the photo and the mode to the time you actually have.
Train Your Short-Term Memory with Code Recall: How Chunking Works
Short-term memory holds only a few items, but an item can be bigger than a character. Chunking is the trick, and a code-recall game is a simple way to practise it.
Would You Rather Questions That Get a Quiet Group Talking
A good dilemma makes people defend a choice, and defending a choice is how quiet groups start talking. How to run it well.