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Today students tend to learn the information, training mostly their memory. But memorizing does not mean knowing. And knowing does not mean being able to do. It is impossible to foster an ability without practicing it in an activity, a game or a case study. A lecture provides knowledge, whereas being an “active participant” not only fosters the development of creative skills, but also brings them to action. Stirring up students' creative, cognitive activity insists on Problem-Based Learning, which is known as the most efficient tool for fostering solid, deep knowledge, skills and attitudes. PBL triggers students' self-discovery of scientific phenomena, operation modes, etc. PBL resides in planning and organization of problem situations for students, their perception and formulation, solving the identified problems within the active communication between students and faculty. The best way to reproduce and study problems within the educational process is to deliver them in a form of a game that involves group training on decision taking in real-like conditions. Educational game joins two specific educational principles: the principle of future professional activity simulation and the principle of problem orientation. It is also important that a game has probabilistic nature. The requirements towards educational tasks are simple and attainable: the issue should be topical; its solution should require students to have basic knowledge, imagination and creative skills. The task itself should be quite difficult, however accessible for solution; it should foster trigger search for new principles, facts, solution methods.