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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5635905" data-attributes="member: 54707">I play games (Role Playing Games and other types  of games), not just for entertainment, or to train for something, but also to  Problem-Solve.   Occasionally I will play D&D, or my variant of  it at least, or other RPGs with some problem I am working on written into the  scenario/mission/adventure/campaign I am constructing or playing. Sometimes  seeing how my players react to it will give me new ideas on how to solve the  Real World Problem. Or maybe just seeing the scenario played out in a different  format, or setting, or from a different angle will give me new problem solving  ideas. (This doesn't always happen but sometimes it can be a very successful  problem solving technique, or will at least give me new insights or ideas about  how to solve the problem.)   This is what I call Alternate Direct Problem  Solving, through gaming or other means. But I also engage in Alternate Indirect  Problem Solving.   ADPS usually takes the form of an RPG, ARG, or  PRG. Because the problem or problems can be "written directly into" the gaming  or scenario script. (Sometimes just writing the problem out in a script format  for game construction will help me see the solution or possible solutions to the  problem or problems I face.)   AIPS though usually takes the form of Wargames or  sometimes board games. For instance my favorite game for indirect problem  solving is Star Fleet Battles (the map and paper game, not a computer game), or  sometimes Chess or Risk or Stratego or Scotland Yard. With indirect problem  solving I don't write the actual problem into the game itself as much as just  imagine the game components to be different aspects of the problem. For instance  in my mind my ship might represent a possible workable solution, and the other  ships might represent different aspects or elements of the problem I'm  facing.   (As a little side-note I think that the reason  physical games with maps and counters and paper etc. are useful to me as problem  solving aids, and computer and video games are usually not, is because I can  touch and feel the physical game elements. Which to me adds a sort of "solidity"  to the problem or the elements of the problem I face. I can pick up an enemy  ship marker, or a figure, and feel it and turn it over not just in my mind, but  in my hands. Those tactile and visual elements help me problem  solve.)   The kinds of problems I generally use games to  help problem solve are usually business (I own and run a communications  company), or career (I write and invent) related. Though occasionally I use  games to help me problem solve cases or experiments. If I'm missing  something.   Theoretically though games could be useful in  helping solve all kinds of problems. It's just I use them mainly as aids for  solving business and career problems. But they needn't be limited to that kind  of problem-solving.    Anyway, what games do you guys play to either  directly or indirectly problem solve, or what games do you play that are helpful  to you with problem solving?</blockquote>

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