Feature Stories
The First CDF Board Game
Reflection on the Importance of Life Planning and Making Savings through Thinking About the Way to Win the Game
7.2018
CDF has specially designed a set of board game on “Targeted Life”. Apart from serving as an assistive tool enabling NGOs and schools operating CDF projects to promote and implement their projects with the help of games, the board game also aims to use a more interesting approach to help the public gain a better understanding of the projects. The design of the game has incorporated the concepts of “Targeted Savings”, achieving targets and mentoring support. The players could learn about the three key components of the CDF projects and their values through the game by proceeding in a progressive manner, and they could also reflect on the importance of life planning and making savings through thinking about the way to win the game.
During the past year, a total of 106 staff members from 40 NGOs and schools operating CDF projects attended the train-the-trainer workshops arranged by the CDF Secretariat to understand the process flow and application mode of the game.
The Way to Win the CDF Board Game
The main task in the game is to make choices with limited resources in a designated round. The steps include adding value to the limited resources, getting ahead of others to select and buy the appropriate squares, and taking the lead in piecing the squares together to form a target image.
To win the game, participants should note the following:
Clear Identification of Targets |
The total value of the money cards held by each participant is not enough to buy sufficient number of squares for achieving the specified target. At the same time, the numbers of money cards, squares and rounds are limited. If you want to make the most appropriate choice, you must check all the time the number of squares required (the target), the number of squares you can still contend for holding and the number of the remaining rounds. |
Detailed Planning |
To be the player who can achieve the target most quickly, you must be the one who can arrange your assets in the most appropriate manner, know how to master the proportion between increase in income and spending, and grasp the best opportunity. |
Optimal Use of Resources |
You never know what’s around the corner. When managing your assets, you must bear in mind that things unexpected can happen at any time. “Things unexpected” include the scenarios that the player who is before you in the playing order has bought the square you really want to pick or during the bidding process there is a player who is utterly determined to get what he wants, etc. |
