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The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of intelligence games on 6th grade level students' creative thinking skills. For this purpose, 32 mental and intelligence game trainings were given to students during 16 weeks and the effects of intelligence games on students' creative thinking skills were investigated. The research was gone on total of 70 students with 2 different branches at a public school. Branches are randomly grouped as control and experimental groups by assignment. The semi-experimental method was used in the pretest- final test control group study. As a data collection tool; Torrance Creative Thinking Test was used After the assumptions of the t-test were tested, paired groups t-test and independent groups t-test were used for the analysis of pre-tests and post-tests of the control and experimental groups with normal distribution. According to the analysis of the pretest-posttest data of the experimental group, a significant difference was reached in favor of the last test. When the application results were examined, it was observed that the intelligence games course was very effective in developing students’ creative thinking skills and contributed to the individual development of the students.

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