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Ascension

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Ascension is a deck-building game in which players spend Runes to acquire more powerful cards for their deck. It offers a dynamic play experience where players have to react and adjust their strategy accordingly.

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Middle
High
Content Area: 
Other
Play Time: 
30 min.
Ascension

viceroy

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Players struggle for control over the world of Laar, they recruit a variety of allies and enact various laws. These cards allow players to develop their state's military and magical might, increase their authority, and get precious gems they need to continue expanding their nation.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Other
Play Time: 
45 min.
viceroy

Mow

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The players are farmers. They round up cows and form them into herds ready to be brought into the cowshed. However, some cows are infested with flies, and nobody really wants to be near those...

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Other
Play Time: 
15 min.
Mow

Machi Koro

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Welcome to the city of Machi Koro. You've just been elected Mayor. Congrats! Unfortunately the citizens have some pretty big demands: jobs, a theme park, a couple of cheese factories and maybe even a radio tower.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Other
Play Time: 
30 min.
Machi Koro

Dread Curse

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A pirate lives on skill, guile and fortune's fair eye, dreading the day his luck finally runs dry.
 Before ye lies a sack of sixty golden doubloons – a king's ransom and a good day's haul.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Other
Play Time: 
30 min.
Dread Curse

Diamonds

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Diamonds is a trick-taking card game in which players collect Diamonds — not cards bearing that suit, mind you, but rather actual "Diamond Crystals" (acrylic crystals) included in the game.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Other
Play Time: 
25 min.
Diamonds

Coconuts

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Coconuts is a dexterity game based on the "Monkey King" character from Chinese mythology.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Other
Play Time: 
20 min.
Coconuts

Smash Up

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The "shufflebuilding" game Smash Up starts with a simple premise: Take the twenty-card decks of two factions, shuffle them into a forty-card deck, then compete to smash more Bases than your opponents!

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Other
Play Time: 
45 min.
Smash Up

Sushi Go!

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In the super-fast sushi card game Sushi Go!, you are eating at a sushi restaurant and trying to grab the best combination of sushi dishes as they whiz by. Score points for collecting the most sushi rolls or making a full set of sashimi. Dip your favorite nigiri in wasabi to triple its value!

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Library
Other
Play Time: 
15 min.
Sushi Go!

Connect NY: Common Core in New York Schools

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Connect: NY, Conversations That Matter To You. WCNY’s Susan Arbetter hosts New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and a panel of education stakeholders to discuss the Common Core in New York schools. The program is the first of six episodes of Connect: NY to feature conversations about education issues in the Empire State.

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