This week we were given the option of a free play. I played a few games during this class which included Flip 7, Can’t Stop, and The Game. All were very fun and enjoyable, The Game and Flip 7 were both card games, while Can’t Stop was a fun dice rolling game. The Game was a cooperative numbers building puzzle like game where you need to get rid of all the cards together but others can not know what cards you have. Flip 7 is a risk taking, points building game, fast paced and very simple. Can’t Stop is also a risk taking game where you roll the dice to make pairs and try to get the most pairs out of the group. If I were to rank these games I would say that Can’t Stop was my favorite, then The Game, and lastly Flip 7.

I would say that the hardest part of these games were the risks and not knowing when to stop before you lose all the progress you just made. It was also difficult learning the games on the fly, I feel like for some of the games we would start and not understand some rules so we would then stop and read the rules again. In the end, these were simple games to understand after taking some time to read the rules and play through the problems.

With these problems that we faced, came leaders who took lead of informing others of the rules. We also were very helpful to the others even though the games were against eachother, we would give advice as to what move we should make, which made it a casual and friendly game rather than a competitive game. Also the cooperative card game that we played, had leadership built into it, where leaders would be the one to speak up to the group where to stay away from or where they need to go next.

Overall these game were very fun, and the risk taking in all of the games helped implement leadership roles even in games that were solo and not cooperative.