Objective: to identify the nurses's educational process in PSF, to describe the knowledge and the nurses's use in PSFs of the educational games, and to analyze the possibilities and difficulties of the educational games as a new teaching strategy. Methodos: descriptive exploratory research, quanti-qualitative approach, of field, backed by the Resolution nº196/96, with actives nurses in PSF, that co-ordinated by the Polo Sanitário Washington Luiz Lopes, in São Gonçalo. Results: the research indicate for a great interest of the nurses interviewed in knowing the educational games and its dynamics, as well as of putting them in practice. Conclusion: the present work describes and discusses a new educational strategy, little known as facilitat...