We all use a combination of our left and right brain, shifting from one side to the other according to what we’re doing.

So for example, writing prose uses both sides of our brain; the left side for the technical and grammatical aspects of what we’re writing and the right side for the creativity, to create the ideas that we are expressing. Selecting specific words for clarity would be the department of our left brain and for their poetic beauty, much more right brain.

I will however describe individuals as either right or left brained for brevity’s sake, what I’m actually meaning is “person who leans on their right brain activity more” or “ …. left brain activity…”

Structured games, cross words, sudoku and the like, use the left brain more and are therefore likely to be easy and natural for a left brained person. A strong right brainer may see these activities as something they’d be forced to do in hell and never choose them.

That’s fine, because they’re usually solitary, which is something strong left brainers are fine with. The right brainer may want to join in, because they find it natural to operate in groups, and feel left out, but they won’t have a natural predisposition for games like this.

All sport requires a degree of right brain, as our right brain is in charge of our body and its movement. Highly physically co-ordinated people are either strongly right brained or else have a high degree of integration between their left and right brain.

Someone who has a good degree of integration between right and left sides of their brain but who still leans towards the left brain may choose a sport like tennis whereas someone who leans more to the right brain may choose a team sport like rugby.

Someone more strongly right brained who wanted to use their body may choose to dance rather than follow the rules of a sport.

So if we’re looking at something which will satisfy all comers, a murder mystery game for example is likely to have something in it to please most people, since a left brainer will calculate the likelihood of the various characters having committed the murder based on actual evidence, which they will probably be diligent in collecting, whereas the right brainer will get into character and also assess the personalities of the other characters to determine the likelihood of them being the murderer. They will use the story of events to work it out.

The easy answer to this question is “It depends how much they want to play together”.

We will all involve ourselves in activities that don’t feel natural if we really want to.

For a strong right brainer, they’re likely to do this is they want to be among the people doing the activity, or if it satisfies their need for personal expression (like dancing).

A strong right brainer may join others to learn and become adept at something they really want to be good at, or which they feel will lead to personal improvement.

So, it’s not so much whether they can it’s all about whether they will.

I am strongly right brained, I have little self control or focus for things that don’t involve and inspire me but I will go on and on without a break when I’m involved in doing something I love. In general, I say I don’t enjoy games.

I was highly entertained at Christmas however by us playing “Just a Minute” (based n the radio programme where each person has to talk for 1 minute on a subject without repetition, hesitation or deviation.

I love exploring ideas, it satisfies my creative impulses to delve and discover about a subject, especially if I can do this by talking rather than research. I was mostly got out by repeating myself, not because I was coming back to something, but for emphasis; “very very” for example.

Those among us who like rules and predictability were satisfied by the structure of the game and its competitiveness so a good time was had by all.

It is all about choice in the end.