Get Back To Your Childhood With The Latest Card Games

Collectible card games have been around in one guise or another since the early nineties

, but, despite the development of a sophisticated video games market, their popularity has gone from strength to strength and in many cases they have even increase their market share of the toy and game industry. The reason is quite clear: many love the retro charm of playing a social game that relies on an exciting mix of ingenuity, luck and imagination. The importance of the social element of the game is considerable and many players have said that it is the chance to stretch their imagination in a group setting that is the reason for their enjoyment of the game. Indeed, the social skills that players develop is one of the reasons that educators advocate collectible card games as a more useful alternative to video games as way of getting children and teenagers to develop their social and emotional awareness skills.

Indeed, games like the Yu Gi Oh cards are advocated by many teachers and educators as a great way of integrating a range of skills into the classroom and helping reluctant children to engage with various skills such as maths, English and creative writing. Most recently, the burgeoning market in adjunct merchandise inspired by the likes of Yu Gi Oh cards, Magic the Gathering and Pokemon have diversified into the educational sector and seen the launch of a variety of products that aim to help children with a range of tasks from reading to mental arithmetic.

Indeed, the power of these games comes from harnessing the popularity of Yu Gi Oh cards and their counterparts to help effect changes that children might otherwise be reluctant to make.

Teachers have long seen the popularity of such collectible paying cards, as they were traded and played in the school yard. Even such comparatively arcane things such as the nature of economics has been explained by referring to the trading of these cards and they proved to be a great stimulus in getting young boys to read. The slew of fantasy writing that surrounds the genre has been instrumental in helping encourage reluctant readers to spend more time with a book and the imaginative powers of the game's mythos can be harnessed to help make difficult subject accessible. Indeed, some educators have even gone so far as devising their own versions of collectible playing card games to help teach, for example, Newton's laws of nature.

by: Kathryn Pattison

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