This is part of a series of educational "Our USA" games from Selchow and Richter. The series also included "Our USA: Products and Resources" and "Our USA: Heroes and Events". (There may be others.) This game was copyrighted in 1962 and is basically a roll & move historical game about famous American Landmarks that you try to visit. The game is designed for...
Use resources to construct buildings to help your village. Each building will help a number of people in your village. The player who helps the most people is the winner! Each turn players have the option of asking another player for a specific resource card. If the other player has that resource, they must trade it for another card from the active...
Publishers description: "Who will be the first astronaut to reach the edge of the solar system? It could be you…if you answer questions about earth and space science correctly! In this skill-building game, students travel through the solar system by answering questions about the earth’s properties, planets, stars and more……then slip the quiz cards in the...
Background from the instructions: The OUTDOORSMAN GAME was created by avid sportsman in a sparsely populated, wildlife rich area of Eastern Oregon. When he discovered that many of his junior high math students shared his enthusiasm for outdoor activities, he came up with a way to make statistics and probability more interesting to them. Drawing on his own...
Can you survive the perils on Shipwreck Island long enough to escape? Only if you can find the right information on the question cards! In this skill-building game, players read short passages and answer questions that challenge them to recall facts and details, analyze text and more. Each correct answer could earn them a survival medallion and get them...
Over and Under is a child's "First Game of Fractions". From Publisher Page: Players place one die over or under another die to create a proper or improper fraction in this multi-leveled game of beginning fractions. Then place a marble over or under that fraction on the game board to knock their opponents out or capture the fraction for themselves. For the...
“Charles XII became the King of Sweden in 1697 at the age of fifteen. He inherited a sizable empire and one of the best armies in the world. Sweden's rivals thought they could take advantage of the young King. The Great Northern War (1700 - 1721) was a military struggle between Sweden on one side, and Russia, Denmark, and Saxony-Poland on the other." "At...
The object of the game is to move from the center of the spiral on the board to the final square of the outer circuit. Along the way, three small Oxford 'dictionaries' are collected. These are obtained by passing the special dictionary squares on the board or by winning a duel. The first player to cross the line with three dictionaries is the winner. To...
There are a number of word games, of varying difficulty, on the market, but none Words has encountered has the appeal of Oxfurd Bluff, a creation of Manvers Games Inc. of Toronto. Ignore the game's trifling title and press on; there is much here to tantalize and fascinate word freaks. (And we'll skip the details on the rules; they're easily grasped. There...