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Poly Plug Game Pack

Poly Plug Game Pack is a pack of 16 strategy games in four families. It is provided to be freely used, shared, reproduced or distributed in perpetuity.
  • Poly Plug is a set of 2 boards each with 5 rows of 5 removable plugs.
  • One board is a sandwich of blue and yellow and the other board is red.
  • The yellow/blue board is double the thickness of the red board.
  • Each board is 17.5 cm square.
  • Each Poly Plug set is supplied with a tough press-seal plastic bag.
  • The Resource Book contains:
    • 16 reproducible strategy games
    • Teachers' notes and What if ...? questions.
    • Blank pages for students to design their own games.

Note:
To make use of this book you will need at least
one
Poly Plug set.

Poly Plug Materials

  • Review: Poly Plug Game Pack (PDF)
    by John Gough

  • Big Toe Os & Xs is an example from Poly Plug Game Pack. Read Teaching Notes for this game.
    (These notes are not in the book. They were written for a different purpose but give an idea of the type of reasoning involved in the pack.)

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