My two daughters are playing the twolivesleft.com game Cargo-Bot. The game requires users to come up with a series of functions to program a "cargo-bot" to move crates to a pre-determined pattern. In the past when they've played games like this the younger one gets frustrated because she wants to do it all on her own, and it all ends in a fight.
I've been explaining to them that this game is different, that the only way they are going to be able to solve it is by working together. One of them tries to figure out one function to solve part of the game, then the next one tries the function, and the keep testing and improving each others functions for completing the game.
So far it seems to be working. They seem to have real excitement over working together to complete a level in the game.
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