1st August 2018

WEEK1

The day started with lot of expectations. We were supposed to know what was going to happen in our electives or to what was electives that we had chosen as it was our first day to the elective.

Well my second elective was “STRATEGY THROUGH GAMING”,as name suggests it was supposed to be something related to games. Manthan Gala sir was going to take our elective. When I entered the room the first thing my eyes caught were the stack of board games on the table and of course playing them!!!

He first showed us video and asked us what we felt about it. The conclusion to it was, strategies are used and where we need to focus while we play a game.

Then he introduced us to another sir who was going to explain about what we were going to do. We were divided into teams of 10 to 12 people and were given different board games. So, we were given the game “WORD ON THE STREET”, I had never heard of this game before and thought that it was going to get boring because of the word “WORD “on the box of the game.

So we were again divided onto two groups and were told to select a captain each. The game was simple yet full of chaos. So there were 5 columns of 14 boxes each and in the middle column, there were different alphabets arranged according to the order given on the board and we were given letter coins which we had to arrange on the column according to the letter on the board ,and there was a set of cards kept in between the teams. Each team was supposed to pick one card at a time and was supposed to say a word closest to that question. For eg; something which is cylindrical, the answer could be pipe, bottle, etc. So when the answer is told by the team they were supposed to take the letter coin and shift it to the column adjacent to the existing column(towards themselves)and so does happen with the other team. The game moves on just like tug of war.

We had a lot of arguments on what the answer said was wrong or we don’t agree with the other team sometimes but at the end of the day we had a lot of fun. Sir was the time keeper and each team got 30 secs. The team to get most of the letters on their side WON!

After a long round for about an hour the other team won, but we had a lot of fun and shouting and arguments. I din’t want it to end honestly ,no one wanted ,it seemed like our group had lot of fun than the other one playing another board game.

Sir asked us what we learnt while playing the game, what could have improved to play that game better. Like;

*To keep the track of time

*To think about the correct word to get the maximum letters

*To think under pressure

*To have a good vocabulary etc.

The main reason for playing these games is to understand how these games are related with our day to day life and how playing these games or understanding the strategies can make us a better player and how this helps in our real life and how to deal with it in a better way.

I enjoyed it a lot and I am looking forward for the next week to play another GAME!