A bilingual (English and Portuguese) innovative teaching method, Stereochemistry Game, is presented in the form of a board/card game to help students in their studies of stereochemistry. Four decks of cards (280 cards in total) and one board have been developed for second-year organic chemistry students in an effort to have them work together to solve stereochemistry problems in the context of a fun board game and to provide an efficient alternative to traditional methods of learning. This game encourages interaction and communication among students, develops strategic thinking, and requires minimal preparation and supervision from the professor. Based on the feedback of students and the assessment of learning, the game can be used as a complementary didactic tool by students for aiding them to review and to learn topics related to stereochemistry in a fun way.

This work provides information about a free-of-charge, trilingual (Portuguese, Spanish, and English), game-based application. The game allows high-school and undergraduate students to review chemical nomenclature in an engaging and fun way on their own by answering random questions from a database with over 700 questions. Student testing revealed that the game design, content, playability, and usefulness was helpful as a complementary didactic tool to aid in traditional study. Assessment of student knowledge gains was performed. The results revealed that students who used the game as a complementary tool had higher performance in tests compared with students who studied nomenclature by only conventional learning methods.

This report provides information about an interactive computer game that allows undergraduate students to review individually stereochemistry topics in an engaging way by responding to 230 novel questions distributed at three difficulty levels. Responses from students and instructors who have played the game have been quite positive. Stereogame is available free of charge in Portuguese and English and can be played online via a Web browser or in printable form (board game, cards, and answer key) that is also available for download.

This paper provides information about a multilingual (Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French) hybrid board game composed of a physical board and an application for the Android and iOS platforms. The students’ opinions were very positive regarding the design, content, playability, usability, and usefulness. Facing the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, 44 undergraduate students used the game to review concepts related to intermolecular forces in a fun way that promotes social cohesion. Assessment of learning revealed the game promotes learning as well as a regular problem-solving class and can be used as a complementary educational tool.

This report provides information about an interactive computer-based game named Nomenclature Bets and its utilization in the form of a tournament as a didactic strategy to enhance the students’ interest in their studies of nomenclature of organic compounds. The game allows high school and first-year undergraduate students to review, in pairs, the nomenclature of organic compounds in a fun and engaging competition by answering up to 650 multiple-choice questions. Students’ opinions have been quite positive, and they consider the game to be a complementary innovative didactic tool. Nomenclature Bets is available online via a Web browser free of charge in Portuguese, Spanish, and English.