Why Our Board Game Questions Are So Thought-Provoking

We pride ourselves on the questions in our board games. We are very careful to make sure they are not trivia-type questions and that everyone (7 and older) can at least make an educated guess as to what the answer is. Typical science trivia might ask how many earths can fit inside the sun. This is not really a question that you would be able to reason through to get the correct answer. Here is a sample of a Cogno question.

Also, we steer clear of technical words. We usually say “stuff” instead of “matter.” During our playtesting, we found this was important to our younger players. We even went so far as to give 7-8 year olds highlighters so they could highlight any words they didn’t understand. For instance, most younger kids have no idea what the word "process" means. After the highlighting exercise, we went through and re-wrote all the 261 questions in the game, avoiding use of those words.


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