3 brain boosting board games for kids

Board games are an amazing and economic way&nbsp;of&nbsp;spending&nbsp;quality time with your&nbsp;kids and&nbsp;keeping them entertained.&nbsp;Playing a game of&nbsp;chess or monopoly not only enhances your bonding with&nbsp;your child,&nbsp;but also comes with keeps her fruitfully engaged, thanks to the brain benefits they offer.&nbsp;Introducing kids to board games at an early age also helps them develop certain&nbsp;life skills&nbsp;essential for career advancement.&nbsp;These include&nbsp;strategising,&nbsp;reflective&nbsp;thinking,&nbsp;problem&nbsp;solving,&nbsp;decision&nbsp;making and&nbsp;logical&nbsp;thinking.&nbsp;Additionally, these games also lend team spirit&nbsp;to them. Here is a list of four boar games that will be instrumental in&nbsp;enhancing your child’s brainpower.&nbsp;&nbsp;



Chess&nbsp; No list of brain boosting board games is complete without chess.&nbsp;It is a strategy game played on a square chessboard with 64 squares&nbsp;arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. Chess involves two&nbsp;players and 32 pieces (16 each):&nbsp;&nbsp;One king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns.&nbsp;The interesting part is that each piece moves distinctly.&nbsp;The object of the game is to&nbsp;kill or&nbsp;checkmate the opponent's king.&nbsp;However, on many occasions, chess ends in a draw.&nbsp;&nbsp;



The origin of this board game is controversial.&nbsp;Chaturanga, a war game, is considered to be the&nbsp;earliest&nbsp;precursor&nbsp;of the modern game of chess.&nbsp;It finds mention in our epic Mahabharata.&nbsp;According to historians, Chaturanga flourished in the north western region of India by the 7th&nbsp;century.&nbsp;This game has two significant similarities with the current version of chess: Different pieces have different powers and the victory is dependent on only one piece, the king.&nbsp;Historians also speculate that chaturanga later evolved into&nbsp;shatranj, another board game&nbsp;popular in north India&nbsp;which requires two players&nbsp;



Brain&nbsp;benefits:&nbsp;Playing chess can help your child enhance concentration. It&nbsp;also&nbsp;plays&nbsp;a crucial role&nbsp;in improving logical thinking, strategy and decision-making skills. This is because&nbsp;every move requires deep thinking.&nbsp;&nbsp;



Monopoly&nbsp; Monopoly,&nbsp;is a&nbsp;real&nbsp;estate-based&nbsp;board game&nbsp;that can be played by&nbsp;two to eight players.&nbsp;The aim&nbsp;is to remain financial&nbsp;solvency&nbsp;while&nbsp;compelling&nbsp;opponents into bankruptcy by buying, renting&nbsp;and developing&nbsp;properties. Each side of the square&nbsp;consists of&nbsp;10 small rectangles representing properties, railroads, utilities, a jail, various places and events. At the&nbsp;beginning, each player&nbsp;gets&nbsp;a fixed amount of play money. As the game advances,&nbsp;the players then move around the board according to the&nbsp;roll&nbsp;of a pair of dice, buying properties, places or utilities like railway, airport, etc. An&nbsp;unowned property, location, or utility can be bought but if a&nbsp;player lands on a&nbsp;rectangle&nbsp;owned&nbsp;by another, he or she has to pay a rent.&nbsp;&nbsp;There are certain&nbsp;non-property&nbsp;rectangles as well. Landing on them requires a player&nbsp;to draw a card that may be favourable or unfavourable. A player continues to travel&nbsp;to&nbsp;around the board until he or she is bankrupt, which results in elimination.&nbsp;The last player remaining on the board is the winner.&nbsp;



Brain benefits:&nbsp;Monopoly teaches the basic concepts of math to kids. It also helps them learn money management and gives them an idea about the principles of investment.&nbsp;



Scrabble&nbsp; In this&nbsp;board-and-tile game,&nbsp;made up of a 225-square board&nbsp;and 100 letter tiles,&nbsp;two to four&nbsp;players compete&nbsp;with&nbsp;one another&nbsp;in forming words with lettered tiles. At the beginning of the game, each player draws seven tiles&nbsp;from a pool and&nbsp;replenishes&nbsp;the supply after each turn.&nbsp;At the end of the game, when one player has no tiles&nbsp;left&nbsp;or the board is deadlocked, the&nbsp;one&nbsp;with the greatest number of points is the winner. Values of unused letters&nbsp;remaining with&nbsp;players are totalled and deducted from their scores.&nbsp;Scrabble follows the principles of crossword puzzle. Originally known as Criss Cross, it was developed in 1931 by an&nbsp;architect named&nbsp;Alfred M. Butts. In 1948, it was redesigned&nbsp;and&nbsp;renamed as Scrabble.&nbsp;&nbsp;



Brain benefits:&nbsp;It helps a student&nbsp;enhance focus and vocabulary.&nbsp;As the game involves computing the word scores,&nbsp;your child can&nbsp;learn to multiply.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Starting from chess to scrabble, board games improve the cognitive capacity of kids in many ways.

Boost your child’s brainpower with these board games

Starting from chess to scrabble, board games improve the cognitive capacity of kids.

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