>>>Fred, If you're teaching a group that needs to work on Life Skills, Set is going >>>to be very frustrating for them. <snip> >Ahh. I have worked with a lot of kids like this (I worked in the inner city, and >even once I left, I still work in low-income areas). The same applies, but not for <snip> Well, I went with Set anyway. But I will arrange it so it is the last game they get to do. As we are also playing "Are You a Werewolf?", which will take up a larger group of kids. So for the "First round" of games I will help with whatever, and then make sure the kids get to the other games first, before the rotate to Set, which I will be running. _______________ My Game Break explanation to the Director of the program: "Three to five tables, with five chairs each. Four helpers. The games will include Fluxx, Set, Uno, Jenga or Join 3 Balancing game, and Are you a Werewolf. Are You a Werewolf plays better with larger groups of players (a group of six to ten would work well). So if a group of 20 students comes in at one time set, then about a third can play Are You a Werewolf, with the others are spilt amongst the other games. The greater the number of players, the greater the amount of time it takes to play the game. We can lessen the choices are put multiple games on the same table allowing for options of play. Fifteen minutes at each game should allow enough time to play, understand, and enjoy the game. At the end of each fifteen minute segment, the students can be rotated to the next game. With the assumption of five games at fifteen minutes each one hour and fifteen minutes should work for the time needed." _______________________ Thanks everyone for their suggestions. By the way, the final list I came up with was: Cards- Fluxx, Set, Uno, Mille Bourne, Five Crowns, Water Works, Pit, Phase Ten, Timeline, Agora Board Games- Robo-Rally, Monopoly, Clue, Settlers of Catan, Risk Junior Other Games- Dominoes, Icehouse, Jenga, Join 3 Balancing Game (odd connected three game that is a disk balanced on a spindle I got a few years back), Connect Four, Dwarven Dig Dice- Yahtzee (alternates of such with non six sided dice) Odd Things- Nanofiction, Are You a Werewolf? _______________________________ By the way I have a copy of the Games Quarterly education issue coming to me in the mail. So if anyone wants to see it, let me know (we will work something out). Thanks Fred Poutre Cloven Fruit Games