Othello Coded Excel Game

This is a coded Excel game! If you want to use it, you will have to have Excel and allow macros.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

• White boards, markers, and erasers for each group
• Copies of a list of questions for each group

DIRECTIONS

• Divide your class into groups
  • Each group gets one of the four colors. If there are more than four groups, let groups work together as teams under one color.
• Groups answer questions on their white boards.
• For each answer, have one student from that group bring their white board and questions list to you.
• If they are correct, mark that question complete on the list and have them take a turn placing a colored square.

GAME PLAY

• Click New Game to clear the board.
• Click a color and then click any white square on the board to place a piece.
  • Sandwich other pieces with your own to change the pieces in the middle to your color.
  • Sandwiched pieces must be contiguous (with no white spaces).
  • Sandwiched pieces must not contain your own color. The sandwich stops at the first instance of your own color.
• The winner is the team with the most squares in their color when time is up.

TECHNICAL TIPS

• If you are using an electric blackboard, use the USB (in addition to the HTMI) to enable touch screen! Then the students can place the pieces themselves!

Files:

Small files

Othello.xlsm (34.7 KB)