Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Board Games that teach consensus/cooperation

[Elizabeth Magill (pastorliz]

We've been playing Pandemic which isn't about anything sweet (its  
about global ill-health) but is totally a cooperative game.

One thing I like, and didn't get right away, is that it is  
cooperation, but with much emphasis that each player has different  
gifts. So you can lose (its the players against the game) by trying  
to do things that you should have let another player do, because they  
had the better gifts for that.

(Hmm, is "gifts" language weird? That's totally church language. What  
is the secular word for that? Mind-blip, please forgive.)

-Liz
(the Rev.) Elizabeth M. Magill
www.mosaic-commons.org in Berlin, MA, where we'd love to have you as  
our neighbor!
508-450-0431



On Jan 31, 2010, at 7:54 PM, JoLynn Doerr wrote:

> I'm looking for a board game or games for adults that teaches or gives
> practice in cooperation or consensus, for our forming cohousing  
> group.  Does
> anyone have experience with the Fair Play Games such as Community,  
> Our Town,
> New America, Personal Portraits, etc., or do you have other games to
> recommend?  Ideally they should be playable by 5 to 12 or more  
> players and,
> of course, be fun.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> JoLynn
>
>
>
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