Project for Gameplay and Ludology

1. By A.Gill

2.  Above are four separate matchsticks which
represent a shovel, and the circle in the
middle represents dirt.

3. The aim of this game is simply this:
 To leave the dirt outside of the shovel
without touching it.
 You must do this by moving only two
matchsticks and that is all.

4.  How to complete game:
 By moving the horizontal stick half way, it
allows you then create and upside down
shovel by then just moving the top left stick
to the bottom right.

5.  In my opinion this game is a perfect example
of how we make problems far to difficult in
our heads, when there may be the most
simplistic of solutions.
 By completing this game you realise that you
should approach things in an objective
manner and slow down your thoughts in time
to recognise them and process in turn making
you more aware of how your cognition
functions.

9.  What this game demonstrates again is our
perception of space, those you have bad
spacial awareness need to play games such
as this so as to improve it.
 If you did not get the answer to this even
though the puzzle beforehand has the same
essential elements, then you need to work on
your memory as you already forgot how to
take an objective and logical approach to a
problem.

10.  Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to
the manager and go to their room. The manager
suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25
and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the
people. On the way to the room the bellboy
reasons that £5 would be difficult to share
among three people so he pockets £2 and gives
£1 to each person. Now each person paid £10
and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totalling
£27. The bellboy has £2, totalling £29. Where is
the missing £1?

11.  Originally, they paid £30, they each received back
£1, they now have only paid £27. Of this £27,
£25 went to the manager for the room and £2
went to the bellboy.
 This puzzle is purely logic and to complete it you
must be able to think things through not
allowing the phrasing of the puzzle to deceive
you or trick your mind. By continuous repetition
of this and various puzzles you in turn train your
mind to think differently as your memory stores
how it dealt with something similar the last time.
Essentially for all of these practice makes perfect.