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This lesson is computational thinking. Sometimes
learning a new game can be tough, right? At

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first it might seem really confusing and sometimes,
there's no one there to teach you the rules,

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so you have to figure it out on your own.
The good news is that you can get better at

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figuring things out on your own when you know
a few thinking tricks. These tricks are unique

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ways for looking at and solving problems.
In this lesson, you'll learn about four tricks

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and practice them with your friends to figure
out the rules to a game. When you break down

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a big problem into smaller pieces, you're
using your brain to decompose the big problem.

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Once we've decomposed the big problem into
several smaller problems, we can go on to

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our next trick, which is called pattern match.
That's when we look for similarities between

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things. Once I find the things that are the
same, I can figure out what things are different.

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When I remove those differences, that's called
abstraction. After I have figured out the

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steps to solving a problem, I can put those
steps in a specific order called an algorithm

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so that anyone can use my directions to solve
that problem. We're going to use these four

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steps to figure out how to play the game with
no rules. By the end of the game, you'll be

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able to play something that looks like this!