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. 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. That sounds terrific! Love it. Two more questions: if you had just one piece of advice for new inventors, what would it be? He gives the example of The Mindfulness Coloring Book: Anti-Stress Art Therapy for Busy People by Emma Farrarons which aims to make the embarrassing act of adult colouring socially acceptable when associated with the "alibi" of it being therapy for successful people.

HILARIOUS GUESSES - Flip your answer boards for the big reveal and laugh at crazy ranges. Smaller range = more points! One of the UK’s best-selling board games is launching a Welsh version due to demand from Welsh speakers. 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. 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.Noting the rise in popularity of the Welsh language and the enduring appeal of board games, Ceri hopes these two factors will make the Welsh version of the game a success.

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?’! We caught up with first-time inventors Natalie Podd and Ceri Price to hear how their idea went from not quite to just right in under a year.The game is sustainably made and is one of the first in the world to be certified as carbon neutral. On top of this, a tree is planted for every game sold with 100,000 planted to date. The bilingual HYDERUS? board 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. 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:

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. 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. 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. René Proyer, professor of psychology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, says that playful adults are those able to frame everyday situations in such a way that they become entertaining and intellectually stimulating. Whether it's an obsession with Candy Crush on the morning commute, playing video games with friends or even sharing a private joke with your partner or colleague, most people are playful, and yet the benefits might go unnoticed or nurtured.Pallavicini puts the mental health benefits of playing video games down to achieving a state of "flow". She says flow is the " the optimal experience when nothing else matters", and is also experienced by athletes and sports people when they are in the zone. Playing to find the flow state can provide an enjoyable challenge and distraction from mental health issues, she says, meaning the player can work on their wellbeing without feeling pressured to improve.