Promotional trick card game. The cards show a specific energy and its advantages. All 36 cards are dealt. Jokers are to be placed at the end of your pile. One player starts with his first card and calls one of its marked advantages. Other players may choose one of their cards and should (must?) follow suit (= advantage). (This rule is not clear.) The...
The game starts with a collective energy consumption of 500 units and a collective generation of energy of 200 units. On your turn, move your pawn on a map showing districts of Baden-Württemberg to another district according to the roll of the die. You may either build a power plant or place a detective looking for energy thieves there. Then you roll...
"Energy City" is a game about energy saving. On a 6x5 grid 20 companies are placed. The red ones use old-fashioned light bulbs, the green ones energy saving lamps. On a player´s turn first tiles with these two sorts of lamps are placed, then the player can move his meeple up to 3 steps and then the player chooses from: a) getting victory points for...
From the Introduction:"The Energy Crisis Game is an instructive introduction to the complexities of energy management. Get involved in the challenge of planning our nation's energy reserves". The Game Equipment consists of the following: a mounted Gameboard; a tri-folded Rules sheet; 1-(6)-sided DIE; 60-Ration Cards; 1-Coupon Disbursement Packet; 6-Various...
A few excerpts from the manual booklet: "It's 1995 and we are still enduring the effect of the recession of 1990. There is a technological revolution going on with an emphasis in discovering new energy resources." "The object of this game is to educate people in the production of energy, while having fun." The basic game objective is a simple one: "It will...
Welcome to Energy Superstar, the electrifying game show where good appliances mean big money! Be one of up to five contestants in this fast-paced, real-time bidding war. With only 20 seconds on the clock, scramble to outbid your opponents for shiny appliances and do your habits to earn Energy Stars. After seven rounds of auctions, the one with the most...
"Die Englisch Detektive" is an educational game for enhancing children's vocabulary in English as a foreign language. It uses the interactive electronic tiptoi® pen (sold both separately and in combo packages with games). The players (or player, as this can either be played cooperatively or solo) are detectives. They are trying to stop Professor Mad, who...
“The first English Civil War (1642 - 1645) was a power struggle between King Charles I and his Royalist supporters on the one hand, and Parliament and its supporters on the other. At the battle of Naseby (1645) the Parliamentarian New Model Army scored a major victory, thanks in large part to the exploits of Oliver Cromwell's cavalry. With his army on the...
Students reinforce their knowledge of prepositions in this vollyball simulation game. Players take turns and "serve" questions from one of the four sets of story cards and "return" the answers. This activity covers prepositional phrases; prepositional after verbs; and prepositional after nouns, adjectives, and participles. Each set of cards, when assembled...
In 1913 in New York published the first crossword puzzle. In a century, the art of hiding words has evolved. From newspapers, riddles have jumped to the radio and Internet. From the literal definition ("leaven" for "yeast") we have moved to the use of double meaning: "The element of bread that has a predilection for the heavy metal" (yeast). Whoever solves...
ENLACE is a competitive, tile-placement abstract game which emphasizes its educational aspects, mainly, the stimulation of the observation & association skills in players. Contents 140 printed tiles Setup All 140 tiles are shuffled, put face down and divided between 3 stacks of tiles of any given size. Each player is given 10 tiles that should be put in...