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Invent a Game

Creativity Challenge 1998 #48

Tis the Holiday Season officially again.

One exercise I have done with my children and participants in workshops has been to invent, reinvent, or modify games.

The past few days I have been reading a few stories in a book titled: I WISH I'D THOUGHT OF THAT by Jeff Rovin, published by Globe Communications, Inc. of Boca Raton. I found it in the grocery checkout line last week.

It is a fun book with brief stories about many games, toys, and inventions.

One of my daily exercises has been to read 4 to 6 of the stories each day. The stories I read this morning were "Miniature Golf™" (1927-Garnet Carter), "Yo Yo's™" (1927-Donald DUNCAN), "Pinball™" ("Baffle Ball" 1930-David Gottlieb), "Monopoly™" (1932-Charles B. Darrow), and "Scrabble™" (1931-Alfred Butts).

Your Creativity Challenge this week is to take 6 to a dozen existing games, your favorites from today or the past and create a modification or a completely new game concept.

Hopefully this daily exercise will generate fun and funds both for you.

When I was about 12 or 13 my mother and I would play Scrabble™ often, especially on weekend nights. Because we tended to challenge each other's words often and argue about it loudly my father renamed it "SQUABBLE".

My wife and I played a variation of Scrabble™ called UpWords™, especially the first few months this year when she was ill and trying to recuperate. Because we found the rules restrictive we created our own "suggested guidelines for play" and eliminated the limitations that the rules put on the game. We also changed it into a joint game instead of a competition.

So pick a few games and CREATE!

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