Mind games are a great opportunity to learn something new in a relaxed atmosphere. Basically, they develop erudition and replenish the baggage of general knowledge, but sometimes they can help “forget” the brain with information from narrow areas of science and art, or even prepare for the exam – if you choose the right materials. The titles that will turn your intellect into a weapon will be covered in this article.
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Sigame
SIGame is a virtual analogue of the TV show “My Game”. Oldies remember that such masters as the ruler of pockets Anatoly Wasserman, the master of answers to all questions on the Internet Alexander Druz and other stars of intellectual games participated in it. The PC version makes it possible to measure with friends or even strangers knowledge in a variety of areas.
The advantage of SIGame is that a list of questions can be formed according to the requests of a particular group. Harry Potter fans can sparkle with knowledge of this universe, music lovers can play a kind of “Guess the melody” by selecting a set with excerpts from songs, and hardcore scholars can download a list of questions that were on television programs.
SIGame is popular among streamers: often the presenters recruit players from among the subscribers or invite other streamers to participate in an intellectual battle. Commentator Michael Olsior Zverev holds SIGame tournaments with a cash prize pool among its spectators, which also include stars of the e-sports scene, for example b2ru, Jotm, Inverno, Likkrit other.
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Oddly enough, Civilization can teach not only strategic planning, but … history! If you start playing it at school, then in the lessons you can easily show off the knowledge gained from Civilopedia. Yes, a player can develop his state as he pleases, without relying on historicity, but scientists and artists in Civilization are real personalities, about whom you learn a lot from footnotes. In addition, it has all the wonders of the world and other famous buildings – even if you are building the Statue of Liberty in Russia, the information in the footnote remains correct, and the appearance still matches the original.
There is another series of global strategies – Europa Universalis. In my opinion, “Europe” is more complicated than “Ziva” in mechanical terms: it has many rules and opportunities for strategy, as well as a huge number of variables. A variety of factors influence the course of your development in it, and sometimes such dependence on map neighbors can turn a game into absolute chaos. However, this does not prevent the game from being a good historical reference. In the title from Paradox, the development of European countries can be studied with encyclopedic accuracy – and then heap up things on the map, rewriting the story completely.
Minecraft: Education Edition
Minecraft has not only a multi-million fan base, but also a large number of haters who believe that only schoolchildren play this “sandbox”. I already wrote an article about why I think Minecraft is a great game, but I want to add something else to the “smart” games section.
Creativity is both a learning process and its result: people who build entire cities in the game or recreate locations from MMORPG, develop a right-brain potential no less than real artists and sculptors. However, those who were born without a creative vein can also find in Minecraft a lot of useful information about medicine, space engineering, geology and other areas of knowledge. All available topics and online lessons are available on the official website of the developer.
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The latest version of Microsoft Flight Simulator is currently under development, the release is set for 2023, and judging by the screenshots and trailers, it will have incredibly realistic graphics. I have no doubt that this title will be a good educational material, since Microsoft promises to add the maximum number of airports to the game, as well as take into account real research when simulating the planet’s climate and other parameters. There will even be the ability to download from the Internet real weather for a particular flight! And therefore, with the help of this game, it will be possible to tighten not only the pilot’s skills, but also geography.
Portal 2
Didactic foundations in one form or another are in every game, and I often use it. For example, English can be pulled up by playing with subtitles in any titles, starting from the series The Witcher and ending with The Last of Us Part II, which will be released soon. However, it was during the passage of Portal 2 that I physically feel gears creaking in my head. And the plot in the game is also present, although its genre is a puzzle.
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