Games both for adults and children are an excellent means to enhance a lot of physical and mental skills and bring them significant advantages. It has a greater educational influence than what individuals are aware of. Most kids with developmental disabilities that normally do not react to their surroundings often are transformed completely when playing games.

Indeed, games possess a remarkable impact on the sensory perception (感官知觉) at various levels. For instance, a baseball player learns to process it promptly when the baseball is actually coming towards him. He may be in danger of getting hurt, or it is now his turn. The player’s senses are stimulated to help him respond to anything that goes around him.

What’s more, games help contribute largely to the development of children’s getting along with others. Most children on account of issues at home, physical disability or shyness, find it challenging in reacting with others. This is the case with adults as well. It has been proven that kids will show enough improvement in their capability of cooperating with fellow playmates as well as increasing their popularity among their playmates due to the skills that are brought about via playing games. The tests conducted on shy adults also have similar outcomes.

It is games that teach kids in following certain self control levels and limits. For instance, a kid who is waiting for taking his turn will carefully think about his turn. In any game, taking turns indeed is an excellent means to make a player focus attention as he or she requires readjusting plans constantly based on the actions of others.

As a child grows older, his play gets complicated and needs more social skills. Children’s games must have fewer rules. However, as the players start growing older, the games begin having more regulations and rules which need greater self-control. It may be stated that there cannot be a better way of teaching self-control than engaging them in the right games. In fact, if a child develops fair play in the early stages of his or her life and takes part in activities which reinforce such value, this will prove to be a great thing for the society at large.

The inside story of how a “band of misfits” saved Lego

When executives at toymaker Lego first learned that adults were buying large quantities of their interlocking plastic bricks and getting together to build Lego creations of their own, “they thought it was very strange,” says Paal Smith-Meyer.

【小题1】 “Leadership actually thought ‘adults’ were taking away from the brand.”

Thanks to a handful of employees who worked to change attitudes inside the company, Lego is no longer embarrassed by its adult fans. 【小题2】 The bygone slogans “Just Imagine... ” and “Play On” have been overshadowed by Lego’s newest marketing motto: “Adults Welcome”. Even superstar athletes and entertainers like Ed Sheeran, Dwight Howard, and David Beckham boast openly about their affection for Lego building sets.

Today Lego is the world’s largest and most profitable toymaker. The Lego brick was named “Toy of the Century” in 1999, and in 2014 Time magazine crowned it the “Most Influential Toy of All Time”, ahead of Barbie, G.I. Joe, and the Easy Bake Oven.

The enthusiasm and buying power of Adult Fans of Lego — or AFOLs, as they’re known in the industry — played a major role in the company’s rise to the top. 【小题3】

Lego founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen always knew he wanted to market his products exclusively to kids. As the company grew over its first six decades, few imagined that its products could appeal as much to adults as to children. 【小题4】 Two decades ago, when Lego began making licensed sets inspired by hit movies like Star Wars and Harry Potter, it was adult fans who snatched up most of the merchandise.

Despite the benefits AFOLs brought to the brand, executives at the company’s corporate offices in Billund, Denmark had little interest in catering to adult customers. As fan mail and product ideas poured in from AFOLs around the world, the company posted its off-putting position: “We don’t accept unsolicited ideas.”

“Adult fans were often seen as a source of irritation,” says Jake McKee, a Lego executive from 2000 to 2006 who oversaw the company’s Global Community Development team.

A few years ago,a Finnish app took the mobile gaming world by storm. Its set-up was simple and its idea illogical: Angry Birds was little more than a shooting game, with birds instead of bullets and green pigs in place of targets. 【小题1】Shortly after Angry Birds took off, audiences found a new distraction in Fruit Ninja, a game where the object was to chop falling produce,and then Candy Crush.

【小题2】That was their charm, after all: They were knowingly ridiculous or illogical, an attack into mindless amusement. In games like Angry Birds, players found an escape from reality.

Fast forward to 2016, and there's now an Angry Birds movie, here to fill you in on all the details you never wished to know. The birds have been given personalities, motives and back-stories,and so have the evil green pigs. Meanwhile, the game's nonsense had to be made sense of due to a necessary plot for a movie. 【小题3】Hollywood has made an industry of answering the questions no one ever thought to ask; to the point of even giving a brand of toy blocks its own story in 2014's The Lego Movie.【小题4】 Viewers no longer have the luxury of imagining back-stories for their favorite characters, or debating the open-ended questions in a film's source materials:An endless flow of prequels(前传），sequels(续传）and spin-offs(衍生产品）fill in those blanks for them.

【小题5】 They'll know.Everything will be determined for them:According to the movie, the main bird Red gets picked on for his bushy eyebrows,and that leaves him feeling isolated and, well,angry.In some ways, Hollywood has taken on the role of fan fiction writers,by expanding and exploring every comer of its fictional universes. But when these universes expand too widely,what will be left to imagine?