Basics of Game Design

On Puzzles in Games

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games include card games like Concentration, trivia games like

Hasbro’s board game Trivial Pursuit and the television show

Jeopardy, and the parlor game 20 Questions. ese games rely on the

player’s short-term memory to remember patterns and long-term

memory to remember facts. e reward is coming up with the cor-

rect answer or nding the right match. Visually oriented games like

Concentration can oen translate easily from one culture to another

while word-oriented games like Trivial Pursuit need extensive trans-

lation to work globally, even though the knowledge might be famil-

iar to many cultures.

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