“…With the start of teaching the course of intelligence games at secondary schools as an optional course, a great number of researches have been made regarding intelligence games in recent years and it still goes on. Upon the review of the researches in this field, the effect of intelligence games on various mental skills and some attitudes of primary and preschool period students was investigated in some studies (Şen, 2020;Altun, 2017;Yağlı, 2019;Marangoz, 2018;Şahin, 2019;Esen, 2019;Aşuluk, 2020;Ott, Tavella & Bottino, 2013;Kula 2020;Zengin, 2018;Altıner;; while the effect of intelligence games on the attitude and mental skills of secondary school students was studied in some studies (Sütç ü, 2017;Demirkaya, 2017;Demirel & Yılmaz, 2019;Çağır & Oruç, 2020;Yılmaz, 2019;Demirel T., 2015;Aksakal, 2020, Bayramin, 2020Kurbal, 2015;Yöndemli, 2018;Genç ay et al,2019), teachers views were given place in some other studies (Adalar & Yüksel, 2017;Sargın & Taşdemir, 2020;Çalışkan, 2019;Sadıkoğlu, 2017;Yılmaz Ş., 2019;Güneş D., 2021;Kul & Kel, 2021). And in some studies, the views of prospective teachers upon intelligence games were investigated; in their studies Yüksel et al ( 2017) examined the contribution of geometric-mechanic games taking place in the curriculum of the course of intelligence games to the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor development.…”