Study Hall

Flick 'em Up!

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The cities in the West are not the safest place to be. In the disc-flicking game Flick 'em Up!, you can become an outlaw and rob banks, free prisoners, attack innocent bystanders... or you could become the Sheriff and try to protect the people of your city from these bandits!

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

Codenames

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In Codenames, two teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. Their teammates try to guess words of the right color while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
ELA
ELL
Play Time: 
15 min.
Codenames

Pyramix

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Pull apart the pyramid! In Pyramix, players take turns removing one cube at a time from the pyramid stack. Cubes come in four colors and are worth 1-3 points depending on their symbol. You can remove a cube as long as two or three faces are exposed and it's not touching a cobra cube.

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

Star Trek: Five-Year Mission

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Star Trek: Five-Year Mission is a cooperative dice placement game for 3-7 players who take the roles of crew members of either the USS Enterprise (from the original Star Trek series) or the USS Enterprise-D (from Star Trek: The Next Generation).

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

The Builders: Middle Ages

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In The Builders: Middle Ages, the cards represent buildings or workers. Players score points (and gain money) by completing the construction of buildings, while placing a worker on a construction site costs money.

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

Bad Beets

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Bad Beets is a fast-paced bluffing card game in which players must eat their vegetables — well, get rid of their vegetables through any means that they can.

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

Dragons Gold

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In Dragon's Gold, each player controls a team of dragon hunters (two knights, a thief, and a wizard). Like all dragon hunters, they have only one goal: gold, silver, jewels and magic objects. As for actually killing a dragon? It's a piece of cake.

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

Lanterns

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The harvest is in, and the artisans are hard at work preparing for the upcoming festival. Decorate the palace lake with floating lanterns and compete to become the most honored artisan when the festival begins.

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

King of New York

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You are a giant monster, and you want to become King of New York!

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Other
Play Time: 
40 min.
King of New York

Say Anything Family Edition

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To summarize game play, one player asks a question (e.g., "Which magical power would be the coolest to have?"), each other player writes an answer they think the asker will choose, the asker secretly chooses an answer, everyone else bets on which answer was chosen, then the asker reveals his choi

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Other
Play Time: 
30 min.
Say Anything Family Edition

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