The players improve their overall numeracy skills and get a basic understanding of how to manage money. 

Training of micro-business skills and analytical thinking is embedded in everything that happens in the game. The players become more aware of the importance of planning ahead and to make decisions based on what they want to achieve in the future.  

Seasoned players also report behavioural change in the way they spend and save money. For example doing less small purchases and saving up for bigger things

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Throughout the game players will buy and sell products, count and calculate. At the markets they can sell their products. Here they must multiply to find out their selling price. Calculating percent (%) is introduced when players land on the Tax space – and need to pay 10% tax from their money.

The game offers many opportunities to deal with money, something that leads to a better understanding of how to manage money.

Analytical thinking and the ability to plan and think several steps ahead is an advantage in the Dipeo game. 

Players learn to see connections between cause and effect everytime they make a decision to buy or sell – or not to trade at all.

What will be the possible impact of what I choose to do now? 

In Dipeo the players learn important aspects of what is necessary in order to create their own micro-business/livelihood in a safe and playful setting. 

For a business to grow, the players learn:

• To take decisions whether to buy or sell
• The importance of having customers
• The balance between saving and spending/investing
• The need to budget and "think ahead"
• The pros and cons of borrowing money for increased investment
• Take calculated risks
• Think outside the box 

  – use their own creativity. A most important skill for a sucessful entrepreneur!
  

The magic of a board game is being together, having fun and learning face-to-face. The playful, yet challenging aspects of the Dipeo game makes the players very involved in the game. Yet a careful balance between competition and plain playful fun, is achieved through different activities happening as you move across the board.

In Dipeo you don't have to make it difficult for others to win. It is all about making your own business grow

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Maths and numeracy skills are at the forefront, but players also get the opportunity to improve language and reading skills. Reading aloud in smaller groups in your own, or a foreign language, is very good language training. If only one player can read, the others can easily participate as the game is clearly and richly illustrated. In addition, the story book about Goldie the Super Hen provides an extra tool for improving language- and reading skills.

The learning objectives and impact of the Dipeo game contribute to the achievment of:

• goal 4: Quality education
• goal 5: Gender equality
• goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
• goal 10: Reduced inequalities