Image courtesy of Bananagrams Name Bananagrams Players 1 – Many Play Time 10 minutes Game Style Making Words This seems like a theme to end the week. Like these last two posts, this one is all about the words. Like a free form scrabble, Bananagrams has you scrambling for words, and adding letters all the…
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TID – Day 17 – It’s Like Rummy, with Words
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Image courtesy of How Stuff Works Name Quiddler Players 1 – 8 Play Time 30 minutes Game Style Making Words Quiddler, like Scrabble Flash, is a wonderful word game. You start with 3 cards, and, by drawing and discarding, attempt to get ‘out’ by spelling a word. The value of cards played becomes your score…
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TID – Day 16 – More Jetsons than Flintstones
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Image courtesy of Wikimedia Name Stone Age Players 2 – 4 Play Time 90 minutes Game Style Resource Management This is my wife, Jennifer’s, favourite game, by a wide margin. You control a tribe of people that are competing for resources with up to 3 other tribes. Each round you place your meeples in an…
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TID – Day 15 – Which Way Are You Going?
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Image Courtesy of Wikimedia Name LCR Players 2 – Lots Play Time 5 minutes Game Style Dice Rolling LCR, which stands for Left, Centre, Right, is a quick and easy game. Each player gets three chips to start, and each rolls one dice for each chip they have (up to three). This makes more sense…
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TID – Day 14 – Solo Effort
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Name Scrabble Flash Players 1 – 3 (although teams can play) Play Time 30 seconds – Lots Game Style Making Words Sometimes you just don’t want to play with others. While collaboration is a key ingredient in my classroom, I know there are times that this isn’t necessary. I find it hard to find good…
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TID – Day 13 – My Favourite Kind of Capacitor
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Name Fluxx and its many variations Players 2 – Many Play Time 5 – 10 minutes Game Style Pick a card, play a card The simplicity of this game is deceptive. The basic rules start with “Draw a Card, Play a Card”, yhen all heck breaks loose. Cards played will change rules, destroy plans, and…
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TID – Day 12 – Do They Travel Planetary Intergalactic?
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Name Galaxy Trucker Players 2 – 4 Play Time At least 90 minutes Game Style Build and Race Galaxy Trucker is one of my favourite games! I won’t even try to get into the intricacies of the game, but the basics are as such: There are two main phases. In phase one, you build your…
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TID – Day 11 – Shaun of the Die
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Name Zombie Dice Players 2 – Many Play Time 5 – 10 minutes Game Style Play and Pass, Push your luck *CONTENT ADVISORY* – This one includes necessary Zombie defences, which includes shotgun blasts. The situation is fantasy, so I would consider this game safe for Grade 7-8 and higher. For a good party game,…
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TID – Day 10 – Get Ready for the Blitz
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Name Dutch Blitz Players 2 – 4 Play Time Quick and Lively Game Style Card Laying, Simultaneous Play Nothing says fast paced like Dutch Blitz. A game of stacking and claiming piles, each round is a ridiculous clash which reqrds the ones with fast hand eye-coordination. All that is necessary is the ability to count…
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TID – Day 9 – Arrgh-itecture
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Name Ugg-Tect Players Some – Lots Play Time Quite Variable Game Style Creating Structures, Communication I find that students gravitate towards the more active games, like Jungle Speed. The physicality speaks to them at a instinctive level, and they find it much more intuitive than a lot of the card-laying turn-based games. Ugg-tect gets them…