After Federica Pallavicini's father was treated for brain cancer, she wanted to help him with his recovery from the surgery. "I began to look into ways of improving his cognitive health without it being a burden or reminder of his situation," she says. Inspiration came from an unusual source – video games. FUSS-FREE & FUN FOR HOURS - Addictively simple so you can play straight away and won’t want to put it down. It's couch-friendly too - no small pieces! HYDERUS? – CONFIDENT? Wales Edition is available at book and toy shops across Wales – the creators are encouraging customers to support their local shops when they can. CONFIDENT? ADULT & FAMILY PARTY GAME - An award-winning trivia board game loved by all ages for 2-30 players.

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PERFECT ENTERTAINMENT - A rare game loved by adults, kids and families alike. Even teens love it! Guarantees countless evenings of laugh-out-loud entertainment Your enjoyment of play can depend on both your personality and your willingness to be open to new forms of conversation and experiences. Proyer suggests that if you're most playful at home with your partner or family, for example, try using similar conversational techniques with colleagues or more distant friends and observe the results. With the evidence so strongly pointing towards a wide array of social benefits, it can't hurt to look a little harder for those small moments that make a much bigger difference than you might think to both yourself and the people you interact with.

That sounds terrific! Love it. Two more questions: if you had just one piece of advice for new inventors, what would it be? Non Stop Fun! - Get your family and friends together and create memories while playing fun, high quality and challenging games that everyone can enjoy. Perfect gift for birthdays or Christmas as it allows adults and kids to interact and bond over hours of laughter and stimulating activities. Games cater to all levels of knowledge and experience so everyone can have a turn and have a good time!A really easy 5 star rating – a great game for the whole family that would be even more fun as a party game! We’ve received amazing support from the Welsh public since we launched CONFIDENT?, and I was constantly getting asked whether we’d make a Welsh version,” he said. We’re unfortunate enough to be halfway through a 14 day isolation period at home, so having spent all day on their laptops doing their home learning, we’ve been trying to get the kids off their technology on an evening and doing other, less insular activities. Family board games have always been a brilliant way of getting us all to spend time together in a fun way that everyone looks forward to, and now the kids are getting a bit older, it’s been great to turn our family board game evenings into something a little more mentally challenging and little less manic and mad.

We have all had a great time with this playing together, and I would normally say it’d be a brilliant game to pull out after Christmas dinner if you’ve had the whole family over. Obviously with the year being such a strange one, many of us won’t be doing that this year, but the great thing with this game is we think it would work fantastically well over Zoom or the like. If you’re really organised, you could even post the answer boards out, but even if you don’t do that, you could manage perfectly well with pen and paper, and it’d be a great way of families getting together from a distance this Christmas. So with all the benefits that come along with it, it's not a stretch to say that making an effort to be a little more playful should be a part of your day. Do you ever think wistfully about your childhood toys and envy that lost feeling of playfulness? Well maybe that feeling never really left you at all – it can be just a little harder to find. CONFIDENT? is different because instead of answering questions with one answer, you give a range. The aim is to get the answer in your range, while also getting the smallest range compared to the other players. So, you don’t need to be a trivia buff to win, you’ll just need to balance being correct and being confident: GO small OR GO HOME! Use your special powers once per game to COPY a friend’s answer, cause some havoc with a SWAP or go for DOUBLE points if you’re feeling bold. Feeling CONFIDENT? Pallavicini had good reason to believe it could. Adults who demonstrate more playful personality traits are more motivated, creative and spontaneous. There have even been links between people with more playful characteristics having lower blood pressure. While less playful people struggle in their leisure time to relax and often feel bored when their minds are not preoccupied, those that are more playfully inclined are aware of new opportunities and open to trying a wider variety of activities.

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The game is great fun, and provided far more laughs than we ever thought it would! Game play takes longer if you have teams rather than individual players as there is a lot more discussion and negotiation (make that arguing and eye-rolling) than when you play as individuals. With the two adults, we found a round lasted about 10 minutes, playing with the kids took about twenty and I can well imagine playing with more teams, you could easily be playing for around half an hour. That being said, it’s so much fun that it flies, and we lost count of the number of times we said, ‘just one more round?’! Ceri runs the business day-to-day, and being a Welsh speaker from Llanelli, the idea of a Welsh version was always close to his heart: HILARIOUS GUESSES - Flip your answer boards for the big reveal and laugh at crazy ranges. Smaller range = more points!

CONFIDENT? which was created by couple Ceri Price from Llanelli and Natalie Podd from London sells in five languages and six editions across the world. If you’re like a lot of people, you’ll be saying you really don’t know while still trying to figure it out! But what if you’re allowed to answer with a range of dates? And what if the smallest range with the right answer wins? That’s the universally-popular idea behind the new trivia game Confident?… On top of scoring your 1 or 3 points, you also have three ‘Confidence Boosts’ per team too (think Who Wants to be a Millionaire lifelines) to help you on your way to the 15 point winning line. These are COPY – you can just copy the answer of the person who you think is most likely to have the answer correct, SWAP – you get to be a bit of a puppet-master and swap two of your opponent’s cards over, or DOUBLE – for when you’re super confident about your answer so can score 6 points instead of the usual three for having the best answer with the smallest range. There are quiz games, and then there are QUIZ GAMES. CONFIDENT? is making trivia fun again with its unique gameplay that gives everyone a chance. Families and friends across the nation have fallen in love with its quirky questions, dramatic reveals and cheeky answer swaps. From teenagers to grandparents, its multi-generational appeal makes it a must-have for parties, game nights and get-togethers. It only takes two minutes to learn, you can play as individuals or teams, and everyone plays every question, so no one gets bored. Pallavicini has a personal connection with gaming. As a psychologist who studies the applications of virtual reality and video games for mental health and psychological wellbeing at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, she noticed the improvement on her own mental health and lower stress levels after she played Call of Duty (CoD). The first-person shooting game put players into a simulated war, and so is more commonly associated with violence and stress than as a way of improving mental health. Pallavicini, however, says playing became a form of therapy that was highly beneficial in her day-to-day life, and later inspired her career in research. With this in mind, she wondered if play could help her father, too.A fully bilingual board game with questions about Wales and the world, the makers hope it will be a huge hit with the Welsh public – be they Welsh speakers, learners, non-speakers or as a gift to visitors.