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Quiddler

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The challenge is to arrange your entire hand into words. Draw and discard in turn. Try to use those high point letters, but don't get caught with them uncombined.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
20 min.
Quiddler

Once Upon a Time

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Once Upon a Time is a game in which players create a story using the cards that show important elements from fairy tales. One player is the storyteller and creates a story using the ingredients on their cards, trying to guide the plot to their own ending.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
20 min.
Once Upon a Time

For Sale

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Going once! Going twice! Sold to the highest bidder! In this perfectly-crafted bidding game, players are forced to make a multitude of difficult decisions every minute…and that’s just in the first phase of the game!

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
Family/Consumer Science
Business/Technology
Play Time: 
20 min.
For Sale

Battle line

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Ancient battles were fought in organized formations.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
Play Time: 
20 min.
Battle line

No Thanks!

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Good card games can be so simple: either take a card or pay a chip. Anyone can make that decision, right? However, there's a catch - in fact there are two. Nobody wants the cards, not even for free, because they give you points in a game where you need to have the fewest points to win.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
Play Time: 
20 min.
No Thanks!

Perfect Stride

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"Partner up with a keen and clever horse. A variety of challenging jumps await. The exciting Perfect Stride horse game starts now! You and up to three competitors play skilled riders. Be ready for the unexpected -- sometimes lucky events occur and sometimes trouble comes your way.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Play Time: 
20 min.
Perfect Stride

High Society

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In Reiner Knizia's High Society, players bid against each other to acquire the various trappings of wealth (positive-number and multiplier cards) while avoiding its pitfalls (negative number and divisor cards).

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
Play Time: 
20 min.
High Society

Coloretto

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Like a chameleon, a player may change his color many times during the game. However, players who change colors too often will no do well and may even earn negative points for doing so.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
Special Education
Play Time: 
30 min.
Coloretto

Citadels

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In Citadels, you are a medieval ruler trying to complete your city before your opponents can build theirs. Expand your city by adding new districts, but be sure to invest wisely: some districts are more valuable than others, but cost more gold to build.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Business/Technology
Play Time: 
30 min.
Citadels

Fluxx

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A card game where the cards themselves determine the current rules of the game. By playing cards, you change numerous aspects of the game: how to draw cards, how to play cards, and even how to win.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Special Education
Play Time: 
30 min.
Fluxx

Dominion

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ou are a monarch, like your parents before you, a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom of rivers and evergreens. Unlike your parents, however, you have hopes and dreams! You want a bigger and more pleasant kingdom, with more rivers and a wider variety of trees. You want a Dominion!

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Play Time: 
30 min.
Dominion

Dominion: Prosperity

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Ah, money. There's nothing like the sound of coins clinking in your hands. You vastly prefer it to the sound of coins clinking in someone else's hands, or the sound of coins just sitting there in a pile that no-one can quite reach without getting up.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Play Time: 
30 min.
Dominion: Prosperity

Strain

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Strain is a game of competitive bioengineering. 3 to 7 players race to create microorganisms by placing Organelles and Cytoplasm around their Organism tiles. Players battle each other by deploying Toxin attacks and placing Virus tiles on opponents.
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Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Science
Play Time: 
45 min.
Strain

Aye, Dark Overlord!

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The Evil Genius, Rigor Mortis broods upon his throne and casts his baleful gaze across his cowardly and inept Goblin Servants.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Special Education
ELA
Play Time: 
30 min.
Aye, Dark Overlord!

TSCHAK!

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TSCHAK!' is a card game in which everybody gets to play with exactly the same hands. But who will be the most successful in avoiding the troglodytes and bigger monsters, while going for the fattest treasures, or even better, the legendary rings of power?

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Play Time: 
30 min.
TSCHAK!

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