From quick-play board games to hands-on projects and themed Pictionary, playful learning is proving to be a powerful way to engage students of all ages. Educators are blending creativity, competition, ...

From Zelda’s inventive physics puzzles to Hitman’s open-ended missions, certain games push players to think in unconventional ways. These experiences reward experimentation, letting you approach ...

Any card game will improve logical thinking and creative approaches to solving problems. You can invent your own games, or you could just play most common ones, depending on your taste.

Playing a game. Constructing with blocks. Designing a dress. What do these activities have in common? All involve the imagination. A person’s capacity to imagine not only improves their happiness and ...

When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had recently read Garry Kasparov’s Deep Thinking, a memoir of the ...