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'It's critical that children can see their parents play': Ellie Dix on the importance of family board games
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'It's critical that children can see their parents play': Ellie Dix on the importance of family board games

The Dark Imp owner and game designer on her mission to get families playing together

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Feb 08, 2024
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Ellie Dix of The Dark Imp

What power lies in a board game to improve the self?

Ellie Dix not only believes they have improved her own abilities to engage with other people and solve problems, but they can help families become a happier and closer unit.

The teacher, game designer and author – and mother of two teenage boys – is using her experience of gami…

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