I just recently decided to see what the latest ‘craze’ was all about with the game Wordle and have really been enjoying the challenge. I made up my own personal way of playing it each time. And, since the format is also always the same, I decided to just engrave ‘my way’ of doing it on a dry erase board so I could use it over and over…
It’s on there crooked and some other mistakes, but it’s just for myself anyway. I put Hangman on the back, just for fun. Makes me think of making some game boards to take on road trips. They’re about 4" x 6".
I still haven’t played Wordle, but I have a friend who does everyday (plus ya’ll on here who do too!). I think the double-sided board is excellent. How about turning the Hangman game sideways and making room for a little tic-tac-toe on there too?
I also thought of tic tac toe. I’m trying to think if there are any more similar type (very simple) games that I could put on separate boards…so I could put tic tac toe on one side and then another game on the opposite side. I think it’s going to be an issue keeping from smearing them as it is…so I sort of like the larger size…especially when they get passed from one person to another. Know of any other old-timey games like these? I think it’d be fun to make a small set of them.
There’s the game of a grid of dots where you take turns trying to make squares one line at a time. The person who completes the square puts their initial in it. I think it’s called Dots & Boxes. You could also have a game of “Connect Four” where you use different color pens to mark them or use one pen and make Xs and Os.
Thanks, Ellen…I realized after I posted that …that I could look all those up myself. I found a few more that will lend themselves to this. I’ll post my updated results when I get them all finished.
They probably would…but, I don’t do craft fairs so it can be an example for someone else who does. I was trying to figure out a way to submit as a catalog item, but since white board isn’t Proofgrade, there’s no way to do that.
Love it! Another variation: make a standard grid and copy the Sudoku of the day from the local paper onto it. Personally, I dislike doing them directly on the newspaper, it’s so flimsy.
