Historiallinen Helsinki (Historical Helsinki) is an educational game that brings the history of the Finnish capital city alive. Unfortunately from a gamers' point of view the game is rather traditional and childish roll and move -game, where players try to collect a complete set of building cards from different eras. The cards are full of historical trivia...
The Charleston Game plays a lot like Monopoly with one catch: players must answer Examination Questions about Charleston's history or culture correctly to purchase properties when they lands on them. Knowledge of Charleston is the only currency in this game. Acquired property cards contain information that can aid owners in answering future questions. When...
The cardgame consists of a booklet with 100 questions and answers, 36 cards showing monarchs and 100 small cards with answers. Any number of persons may play at this game in the following manner: a President must be appointed, who is to see if the questions are correctly answered: the president distributes about six or eight counters to each player, the...
The game is in the form of a family tree with each monarch named in numbered circles. Those circles before William l are in pink and those after are yellow. Circle one is the DIVISIONS OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND, and it leads to Britons, Romans, Saxons and Saxon Heptarchy then Saxon kings, Danish kings, restored Saxon kings, and the various houses from the...
"A Highly Amusing and Instructive Round Game." Historical Loto is a Bingo type game where the Loto cards have historical dates marked on them. Each date lists an associated event and reigning monarch. A set of numbered Tickets matching the dates and numbers on the cards are drawn from a bag by a Teller. A player holding a Loto card with a square having a...
A card game but without the board associated with Pope Joan games. And the cards are not traditional at all. They feature British Royal 'houses', such as the Normans or the Tudors, etc. Because of the uneven number of monarchs in each family, the suits are uneven. For example, the Norman suit consists of five cards, four being monarchs and the fifth is an...