GAMES HAPPY PEOPLE PLAY

We are in a world today of super stereos, dvd, cel phones, 100 channel television sets, cd player,flat screen tvs, and yet we are still entertaining ourselves with games. "The games impulse is a universal one". (Marcia Holman)

The radio is off, the LCD tv is blank, the computer screen is quiet and you could literally hear a pin drop---if it weren't for the roll and thud of the dice or clanging of some sort of cardboard being opened. Well, the game is on for the board game.

The allure of the board game has been there for centuries. Whether its cards, backgammon, solitaire, charades, monopoly, scrabble, the good old fashioned fun never siezes to amaze us.
The fun never goes out of style.

Games have the seriousness in it, has a practical application too. It teaches us how to play the game of life. They teach us how to become one with nature, teaches us to behave, teaches us to be a team player, teaches us to read, to research, to know more about certain subjects.

It also teaches us the valuable lessons in how to take risks, being patient, plan ahead and react quickly.

The best part about all this is that learning is turned into.....well, a game. "Games minimize the difficulty of learning because they're fun," says E Wilson of Milton Bradley Co.

Here are some more advantages of playing board games:

1. Games make you smarter - you exercise your thinking skills, deductive logic, related facts, real facts and fiction, and make you want to know more.

2. Games improve relationships - group games make you interact with other players, you laugh, you react, you win, you lose. It enhances communication and when you play the game you learn more about opponents, your team mates, and you also learn how to help each other.

3. Games makes you want to know more- questions in board games helps you to read and
learn more about certain subjects. It gives you reasons to want to gather as many details and
research about the specific question asked.

4. Games entertains and is environment friendly- if you love to play board games, it entertains you whether you are alone or with a group, with friends, classmates, with families. It opens a new world of entertainment,
It makes you have fun without using anything that is power driven, battery operated, or electricity connected.


5.-Games make you aware- that there are other alternatives to playing the computer,
Nintendo, or celphone games. Its just a better source of entertainment.