Carol- >did you use the game as a central part of the learning or was it a >reinforcement/reward thing? The group I am working with plans to have seminar like settings for study skills, social skills, life skills (cooking, cleaning, sewing). They mentioned that they wanted a break in the middle to do something "fun", so I suggested games. Fluxx in particular and Set (non-Looney game) is a very good one as well. They are games that encourage thinking that are fun. Plus as I am tutoring math, I can demonstrate the mathematic properties of them and the fact that is takes math to make the games. Real life application of math, that is not as boring to most kids. Magi- >I thought about having my kids make cards. That is exactly the thing I wanted to do, in combination with the math demonstration of how they function as a pattern. Not just Fluxx, but other games as well. Making games also teaches pattern manipulation skills (which can be in part mathematical). Thanks Fred Poutre