From the rulebook: Students participate in OH MY DEER as wildlife managers. They are placed in charge of the management of a deer herd and must make the decisions that affect the size of the population and fate of individuals in the herd. Through participation and discussion, students achieve an intuitive understanding of some of the fundamental areas of...
It's always flowering season in sunny Singapore! In Oh My. Orchids!, you want to gather seed cards to plant in your garden different types of Singaporean flowers, from dazzling heliconias to delicate orchids. Lots of thorny decisions await you in this flowery game of hand management and set collection. On your turn, either gather seeds from the display or...
Foragers race to complete three mushroom lifecycles. A lifecycle is one card of each growth stage (Spore, Hyphae, Mycelium and Fruiting Body) from a single species, drawn from six real ones: Shiitake, Chanterelle, Reishi, Oyster, Lion's Mane and Enoki. Wild cards can fill a gap in any set. Every card does two jobs. Play it for its effect, or stash it...
Players answer questions to collect cards. If the question isn't answered, the person asking the question gets to keep the card. The person with the most cards at the end of the game wins. Questions fit into 4 basic categories; wilderness skills, plants, wildfire and land & sky. The starting player is the person who has the best snacks, or knows the most...
From the publisher: This fun, educational, game teaches about the Hawaiian culture and the strength of the family, as well as the dangers of living on a volcanic island. Throughout the game, Hawaiian words are followed by the pronunciation and the definition of each word in parenthesis to assist the players in learning about the Hawaiian culture....
In Oikos, you'll lead the population of a Brazilian native species. In this highly interactive game, each species has its own goals do reach victory, interacting with the other species and habitats in many different ways. The game has five rounds in which each species will play their turn, starting from the species at the base of the food chain. A turn...
From the box: "You are the captain of an oil supertanker. Your objective is to outmaneuver the other captains and be the first to collect and deliver your cargo of crude oil to the refinery. Chart your course to navigate the environmentally sensitive waters and the hazards of the savage seas. Be prepared to face the consequences of human error. Each roll...
We play pretending to be like trees dropping their leaves onto the forest floor, where there are seeds, mushrooms, and squirrels that give us points if our leaves land on them. Some cards are placed on the floor, and then we stand up with the remaining cards in our hand. We drop them one by one, trying to make them fall on cards of the same type. The cards...
Objective: collect as many bonus points as possible - roll & move game with action cards; moving by turn - Each player tries to roll & move, picking up cards, helping enviroment and moving his/her stone along the scoring board/row for more involved detectives (age 10..) a 'tracing set' can be added Content: 1 board 5 wooden meeples (= 'Öko-detectives') 5...
Rough translation from the box: The environmental protection quiz game for the entire family. Did you know... why the foxglove plant is so useful? how many liters of air a person needs to breathe? how you can effectively avoid garbage? which mode of transportation is the most environmentally unfriendly? "Die Oekolis" guides players in an original and...
HISTORY Frederic Vester designed Ökolopoly in 1980 and it was first published as a supplement in the journal Nature. At the Munich International Horticultural Exposition 1983 it was first offered as a board game designed by Vester information pavilion of the Bavarian Ministry of the Environment. In 1984 Ravensburger launched Ökolopoly for the general...
"Buy a flock of sheep - Construct a flour mill - Convert a hog feeding facility into an organic farm - or even Tear down a nuclear power plant - this all is possible in Ökoly: The only way of winning is by acting ecologically" This introduction to Ökoly as printed on its box already provides a first flavour of this game. Similar to monopoly, the players...