Puzzle design and board game design have a lot in common. I’ll show some puzzles designed for elementary school classrooms and go through the challenges and triumphs of board game design.
About the speaker
Gordon Hamilton (MMath, PhD) is a board game and puzzle designer.
He founded mathpickle.com in 2010 to project ideas of mathematics education. This web site is now supported by the American Institute of Mathematics to design puzzles for the K-12 classroom.
Gordon’s game, Santorini (released 2017) is now rated as one of the top family games on boardgamegeek.com