High

Twin Tin Bots

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"The robot was advancing fast towards the base, loaded with crystals – but the opponent team's robot was nearing. 'Bzzzzt!' Lightning sparked briefly, and the Bot changed course to unload the crystal a few meters from his base, his programming slightly jammed by the shock wave.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Business/Technology
Play Time: 
50 min.
Twin Tin Bots

Survival of the Sickest

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Copies: 12

Joining the ranks of modern myth busters, Dr. Sharon Moalem turns our current understanding of illness on its head and challenges us to fundamentally change the way we think about our bodies, our health, and our relationship to just about every other living thing on earth. Through a fresh and engaging examination of our evolutionary history, Dr. Moalem reveals how many of the conditions that are diseases today actually gave our ancestors a leg up in the survival sweepstakes. But Survival of the Sickest doesn't stop there.

Survival of the Sickest

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

Qwixx

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Qwixx is a quick-playing dice game in which everyone participates, no matter whose turn it is. Each player has a scoresheet with the numbers 2-12 in rows of red and yellow and the numbers 12-2 in rows of green and blue.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
Library
Play Time: 
15 min.
Qwixx

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!

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