GAMES

Non-Role Playing Games that I enjoy include the following:

UPWORDS - a delightful game that mimics Scrabble, but allows you to stack letters up to 5 levels.
MASTERMIND - nice logic / puzzle game
CAR WARS - a Steve Jackson classic involving death-dealing vehicles locked in mortal combat with one another

I'd like to get a few games like COSMIC ENCOUNTER and the LORD OF THE RINGS boardgame. And, of course, the immensely popular CASHFLOW!

CASHFLOW is an interesting game, because the game designer's professed goal was to teach people how to handle their own funds. Robert Kiyosaki (also the author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad and The Cashflow Quadrant) It's evident that his initial design for the game is what is now called the "Advanced Version", since a lot of the detail and number-crunching alluded to in the designer's books appears in that version. The regular game is a simplified version, and Cashflow for Kids is even simpler. It's a lot of fun though...

It's an alternative to regular education - structuring games to teach key components of "systems", such as financial systems or electronic systems, to foster greater understanding of the subject matter.