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…
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TID – Day 8 – Eight Days a Week
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Name Ticket To Ride – So many different versions! Players 2-5 Play Time About an Hour Game Style Hand Building, Route Claiming Beyond Settlers of Catan, I find that the other game that most casual gamers have played is Ticket To Ride. An extremely easy game to pick up, it challenges the players to connect…
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TID – Day 7 – Sunday is a Day for Cooperating
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Name Pandemic Players 2-6 Play Time About an Hour Game Style Cooperation, Card Playing To say that I get excited about board games is an understatement, but some will get me to the table more quickly than others. Enter Pandemic, the first cooperative game that I had ever played. Here are the basic rules. You…
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TID – Day 6 – A Tale of Two Games
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Name Powergrid/Megawatts Players 2-6 Play Time 2 hours! Game Style Resource Management/Auction, Bidding This really is a great game for a long and lazy Saturday. I do apologize for the misleading title, as these are actually the same game, just with different maps. I picked up the copy of Megawatts for my library because it…
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TID – Day 5 – Dragons and Ships
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Photo from Wired Name Tsuro of the Seas Players 2-8 Play Time 10 – 30 minutes Game Style Tile Laying, Path Making This is the first game that I kickstarted (see the next here). I took a flier on it, and I have not regretted it. You are the captain of a ship trying to…
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TID – Day 4 – Where we turn your class into Lord of the Flies
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Photo from Beasts of War Name Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow + Expansions Players 8-Everyone Play Time 30 minutes and up Game Style Party/Storytelling Game I want to give a shout out to the Marentettes for sharing this wonderful large group game that gets my entire class playing. I’ve learned from my students that this is…
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TID – Day 3 – No One Can Go Faster than the Speed of the Jungle
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Name Jungle Speed Players 2-Lots Play Time As much time as you have Game Style Fast play, Matching It’s a jungle out there, and this game proves it. Players start with a deck of cards, and play a card in front of them. If the pattern on their card matches another players, they enter the…
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TID – Day 2 – Shark Bait
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Name Get Bit! Players 2-6 Play Time About 10-30 Minutes Game Style Mass Play, Racing Basic premise – You are a robot swimming away from a robotic shark. If, at the end of the round, you are last in line, you lose a limb. Lose 4 limbs and you are out of the game. Last…