Black Hole Explorer is an interesting children's game about building a rocket to travel to and study a black hole. The game is designed to be light-hearted, educational and fun. The game is played in three steps: First construct your ship using what funds you have available -- $10 million to $60 million. Your ship must have probes, radiation shielding...
Play as an African-American Scientist, Artist, Entertainer, or Explorer as you work your way to the Hall of Fame Players roll dice and move from their starting corner to the Hall of Fame in the center of the board. Each square has instructions for players to draw cards from the Progress, Heritage, and Hall of Fame draw piles, win or lose points from/to...
Here's a game you don't see very often! The object of this dairy farming game is to sell milk, increase your herd size, and build up your assets (money, herd builder values, and farm deed values). The game is patterned after Milton Bradley's "The Game of Life". At the start, players can go right into farming or choose instead to take out a loan and go to...
A game that featured in the British 1975 Disneyland Annual. A simple roll and move game. Players represent characters from the Disney animated film about Alice in Wonderland. Roll a 5 to start. When you land on special square they will often tell you how many blackberries you have picked that turn. Record the number so that each player will have a total...
An educational Black History game. You begin with a chain that has 7 removable links. You roll the dice, move your game piece (Amistad slave ship) around the board, and follow the instructions for each space. When you land on a question space, you must answer the question for that category. Each time you answer a question correctly, you'll discard one...
In Blackhole players travel around the board collecting vowels, consonants and combination letters (for example sh, ar, ing). The tension builds as players near the black holes and risk losing all their letters. The first player to travel from the Earth, around our Solar System and back again on the Scoring-Wheel is the winner. Key features: For 2, 3, or 4...
The object of BLACKOUT is to win the game by having the greatest net investment in power plants on the board. Each player owns and operates a power company. Each player strives to improve his competitive position by investing in new regions and power plants, upgrading existing power plants and acquiring competitors' regions and plants through acquisition...
Warning: This game explores issues of racial inequality and it is useful to read the context of the game design before playing. Some may find the method of exploration of these issues offensive. In Blacks & Whites players experience life in the ghetto. Live on Welfare. Try to buy a place in a white suburb. Your challenge: To keep the land-hungry majority...
America’s realest real estate game is back! It’s Blacks & Whites: 50th Anniversary Edition. Fifty years ago, Prof. Robert Sommer and Judy Tart created a socially-conscious version of Monopoly, highlighting the racial inequity of the housing market and capitalism in America. Inspired by the original, the 50th Anniversary Edition features a new foreward by...