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With the increasing maturity of the domestic furniture design industry, the innovative furniture design has become the competing goal for all designers. The utilization of creative thinking and the brand-new attempt to design method appear especially important in the design process. At present, there had been existing many mature study in the field of creative thinking and theoretic discussion of product design method. However, the specific innovative furniture design method has seldom been mentioned.This article integrated game ingredient and proposes one brand-new furniture design method called "Game Designing Method". The detailed description has been made to its process establishment and the theoretic discussion has been carried on to the feasibility of this brand-new method. Base on this, taking chair design as an example and carrying out a series practices by using of so called "Game Designing Method". Thus, the practical feasibility has been confirmed in the practical application process as well as the inspiration to the creative thinking."Game Designing Method" that is, putting the factors which affect chair design to five word stocks and picking items out from these stocks at random. The creativity thinking of chair design could be enlightened by screening and reorganizing of the chosen words."Game Designing Method" posts a new research direction for the theoretic discussion of furniture design method, at the same time, provides a new attempt to the inspiration pursuit of creative thinking for all furniture designers. Meanwhile, this design method also provides a new learning approach for the majority of furniture professional learners. Utilizing this design method to the process of teaching, not only can exercise students' creativity thinking but also provided an effective help to foster their multi-professional abilities.