Fun & Games blogfest

A couple of weeks ago I arranged oral exam in the course I've been teaching this semester. Half a dozen PhD students were taking the exam. I made three problems, and made two copies of each, to make the students believe there were six different ones.

I called them in, one by one. Some were nervous, some quite relaxed. It's interesting to observe how different people react when under pressure. To start with, I let them throw a dice, to decide which problem they were going to solve. It was a fun game, at least for me ... it didn't make it to my top 3 list though >:)

So, here it is, my Fun & Games Top 3 list, for the blogfest Alex J. Cavanaugh is hosting today:

1. Skiing. Best there is, no doubt.

2. Badminton. When was a student, I used to play badminton every week, in the university sports center. I played just for recreation, not competitive. It's a fast and fun game, and it gives good exercise. Now I'm only playing with little boy in the backyard.

3. Trivial Pursuit (and similar games). I like the games where you're challenged on knowledge, over a wide range of subjects, from the Boston Tea Party to Russian Classics. And you may even learn something new from wrong answers. We usually skip the dice throwing (it's boring) and just draw the question cards to read.

Finally, here are the games I don't like: All kinds of computer games, Playstation, Nintendo and Wii. Completely useless waste of time, the most boring I can imagine. The kids have all kinds of electronic games and game machines. I refuse to touch it.

(I din't have any badminton pictures, nor Trivial Pursuit pictures. So I picked a skiing picture from my collection, more or less at random, cross country this time. A skiing picture may seam odd at this time of the year. On the other hand, our summer skiing is just a couple of weeks away)