Evoking memories of hours spent in scholarly pursuit, players are given a subject of research and told to compile a bibliography made up from books to be found in the Bodleian and its dependent libraries. Throughout the game 'readers' are confronted with the familiar frustrations of finding a book that is 'out to another reader' or 'not in place' and with...
Bodylink attempts to help students learn to integrate their knowledge of the various components of human physiology. These components, body parts, body systems, and body processes are often taught as independent units. In reality, they comprise an intricate pattern of interlocking relationships. No single entity stands alone. Instead, each entity has a...
This wargame simulates the struggle of human T-cells, B-cells and so on, against viruses, bacteria or tumoral cells. The battle area, with the classical hexagonal grid, is an human lymph node. The second edition contains the expansion with the HTL III (A.I.D.S.) viruses. You cannot defeat them, you can achieve victory with the "body" army only resisting a...
bodyIQ - Premium is a game about the body, how it works, how to improve it and physical exercises. Basically it a trivia game with a twist. There are 12 categories. 10 based on some of the bodys most important organs, 1 health check and 1 physical excersise, 600 questions/task all in all. Each turn the player roll the die, and moves his marker along the...
Billed as "Your pre-schooler's first Boggle game", Boggle Jr. teaches letters and spelling in two games of increasing difficulty. The first game is for the very young. A picture card with a 3-letter word is placed in the tray. The player must match the letters of the word using the 8 letter cubes. The second game is for more advanced spellers. Place a...
Game created as a teaching aid for primary school students. It teaches how to manage the home budget and support the WOS (Society Knowledge) lessons. The goal of the game is to have the most Happiness Points at the end of the game, which are gained by responsibly managing your finances. Each round players draw the top card of the deck and depending on the...
This game has three different variants of play. In the first, children just need to place letter tiles in the right squares to make up either pre-printed words or words for pictures on the card. In the second, players roll a color die to see which pile of letters they may take a letter from, and then try to fill out their words first. In the third, players...
The purpose of this game is to learn the alphabet. A pair is a match if you turn over both the small letter and the capitol letter. Players take turns drawing two cards. If the cards are a match they can continue to find more pairs. If they are not a pair then the cards are returned to the same place on the table. The winner is the one with most pairs when...
Bomb! is a board game designed by a primary 4 student, Tan Zhiyong, from Rosyth School in Singapore. The game appears to be similar to snakes and ladders, each player has a single pawn that moves up a boustrophedon track, and there are ladders that pawns can climb up and bombs which send pawns back to the start. There are also a few squares with...
Bomber is a rock climbing themed push your luck game where two players race to top out on their respective climb. Whilst overcoming challenging route sections, players need to deal with unforeseen events, manage their energy level and gear placement to avoid hitting the ground in case of a likely fall. If you top out first, you win. If you hit the ground...
“The B-17 Flying Fortress was the principal heavy bomber of the US during WW II. The plane was used for daylight bombing missions against industrial targets in Europe and, to a lesser extent, the Pacific Theatre . . . Often the B-17s would be accompanied by escort fighters such as the P-47 and P-51.” A simple historical miniatures air combat game designed...