What are some good educational games that are for ages 13 and up?

Question

I vaguely remember many years ago playing Go to the Head of the Class. Is that geared to only little kids? I'd prefer board games, but other ones are ok, too.

Answer 1

There is a wealth of information about board games on BoardGameGeek.com. I did a cursory search for games marked as "Educational" published since 2000, and here are some results:

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In addition, a couple of games that I like very well which teach good spatial reasoning skills:

Blokus - Players attempt to get rid of all of their pieces by playing them on a grid. The only key is that a player's pieces must be placed so they touch at least one corner of one of their existing pieces, but cannot touch one of their own pieces along a face. Teaches visualization, strategy, and tactics. A very fun game that can be enjoyed by young and old. Available at mass merchants such as Target.

Rumis - Players are again getting rid of pieces by adding them to the board.. but the pieces in this one are three-dimensional. Players are placing pieces onto the board, but must place the pieces so that they touch at least one of their other pieces along a face. Teaches visualization, strategy, and tactics. A very fun game that can be enjoyed by young and old. Available at mass merchants such as Target.

Ubongo - Players have a set of "tetris" pieces, and are given a series of puzzle boards where the player must make the selected pieces fit within the figure before the timer runs out. Teaches visualization, strategy, and tactics. A very fun game that can be enjoyed by young and old. Available at specialty game stores.

Answer 2

Big Brain Academy is about the only Wii game I'd classify as being particularly educational -- so far! It challenges and tests you in a number of different areas: Math, logic, visualization and memory. I've played it and feel it may actually help improve your children's "test taking" skills, maybe even at help with the SATs and IQ tests as well. It's also quite fun. About the only other Wii game I'm aware of that may be classified educational is "My Word Coach" which is a little like playing scrabble or boggle--and I use those as examples only for lack of better comparisons. But it's a word game where you are given letters for which you have to see how many different words you can construct for them. Personally though, I'd recommend "Big Brain Academy" over "My Word Coach".

Answer 3

Get one of the Trivial Pursuit series. Also, Scrabble is fun.

Answer 4

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