You can draw and erase on the tiles many type. You can stick them on the board with the magnets glued on one of the sides
A few types of them
Metalised and drawable, similar to a magnetic white board.
Use paper tape and scissors to replace the tiles' drawings
The family creates a board game to avoid eating the Christmas candies at once
This year Christmas brought us lots of chocolate. Pink with little hearts, dark on a stick, white and dairy-free in bars.
It would have been hard to resist gobbling it all up at once if the game “Christmas Overeating” hadn’t appeared. It’s similar to “Don’t Get Angry, Man” and “Snakes and Ladders.” Along the way, players collect corn kernels, which they can use to buy chocolate. Chocolate is sold along the Chocolate Path, and you can walk it if you’re lucky—for example, if you land on Jesus. Then you give two kernels of corn (you fast), but afterward you get to eat chocolate. The alternative to the Chocolate Path is the Arena, where several players chase each other to give one another presents.
It took us a few hours to draw and set up the game, come up with the rules, argue about them, reinvent them, play a bit, and have a good snack. I think the arguments over the rules flared up simply because, at the beginning, it was very hard to earn chocolate. Once a person has a little bite, they become kind. For a short while at least—until the end of the game.
We made the game using the prototype of Igromat—a board game generator.
December 28, 2025
A 10-yo girl creats a board game - puzzle with multiple solutions.
At first glance, it may seem that they shouldn’t… But I spend the whole summer around children, and they never stop discovering new things. What color are the cicadas of Corfu after they come out of the ground? How do you order ice cream in a foreign language? How do you improvise in the Baroque style? What does the Rose Valley look like when viewed from the Balkan Mountains? There are countless examples.
On the number line, it seems that before the first school day comes the zeroth school day; before that, the minus first, and so on. In other words, learning happens—but with a different number in front. So, on the minus fourth day, I’m standing next to Aya on the seashore. She has just come up with an idea for making a four-piece puzzle that can be arranged in different ways—like a sailboat, a butterfly, an open envelope. On the ferry, we calculate how many different puzzles we can make.
Good luck, children. Don’t forget what it means to learn—not for points and medals, but because you enjoy it.
September 16, 2025