Pen and paper mind games

Looking to express yourself. Pictionary is a really fun game to play with friends and you really only need a pen and paper to do it. First, cut up a few pieces of paper and write out some random words — things you want to draw. Make sure you list out a few dozen ideas to keep things fair.

Then, break out into teams and grab from the pile and get to work! You only have 60 seconds to get as many drawings completed as possible.

Every word guessed correctly gets your team a point! You start out by writing M. These letters signify mansion, apartment, shack and house. Imagine the life you want to have. Anything goes! You catch the drift. Write at least 4 answers under every category. But here is the catch. One answer has to be BAD. Like the worst of the worst! Then, when you are done filling out your potential future, beginning from the M.

This continues until only one option remains in every category. When one item is left in every category — THAT is your future. When I tell you that we did this every single day of my life, believe me.

Red loses a life. If red loses all three, she has lost the game. Is black's move risky? Therefore - Red may shoot an arrow. Red saves the game by blocking the line-of-sight between her "33" and Black's " Because both share a common prime factor of 3. Black moves to " Black shoots. Black makes a risky move Red makes a risky move Red loses a life, but now it is Black's turn. Black has nowhere to go. Black loses. Too Many Mice! Extensions: 1 If your students find the game is always won by the person who goes first, then increase the number of cards from 6 to 9.

With 7? Cannibal Fish This is a game for players. The smallest fish begins by eating one of the other fish. Add that number to their number. Clara 1 ate Bob's fish 2 and now has 3. Bob's fish will eat Clara's. Clara's fish 12 chooses to eat Anna's 19 to make it size Anna can't get to 51!

The best she can do is get to 50 by eating Clara's fish. Bob wins. Artists who provide their work for re-use are much appreciated! Pin Board Murders patterns, angles, discussion July 13, Protect the Slow! But both kids and adults alike might still find themselves twiddling their thumbs instead of typing with them on occasion. And playing a game with paper and pen -- or any writing implement -- remains a viable way to keep yourself busy.

To be sure, there are loads of games you can play with only a writing tool and paper. From games that employ strategy to those that allow you to let loose creatively, all of them can be scratched out on the back of napkin. If you're really dedicated to squeezing the absolute most out of your technology, rest assured that almost any pen-and-paper game has an online equivalent. In the next few pages, we'll check out a variety of games that will keep everyone busy, from kids on a road trip to adults who are tired of playing digital games with strangers online.

Tic-tac-toe is an old standby in the pen-and-paper game category -- make that a really, really old standby. It was actually played in ancient Egypt around B. Instead of paper and pen, each player had three game pieces they would move around the game board for an attempt at 3 in a row. Which, you might know, is the goal of tic-tac-toe or noughts-and-crosses, as it's known in the UK. To play, draw a grid on your paper of two vertical lines dissecting two horizontal lines.

Player one puts an X in a box; player two proceeds to put Os. The point of the game is to try to get three of your marks in a row or to block your opponent from doing so. But beware, the clash of two experienced tic-tac-toe players will often result in a stalemate.

Technology is such that you can now play the game online for free or print off grids to save your wrist the trouble of making them yourself. Yup, it's true. The board game actually began as a pen-and-paper game for two. Remember the time it took to form an array of dots across the page? Once the square is created, players 2 or more take turns with a different color pen creating line segments between dots.

When a player forms a square with their line, they may put their initial in that square and play again. The game continues until all the lines between the dots have been drawn. The simple game of tic tac toe is a two player game of Xs and Os. Play begins with nine spaces on a paper created by crossing two perpendicular sets of two parallel lines. One player begins take turns being the first player by placing an X in one square. The next player draws an O in another square.

Draw six dots in a hexagon.