Month: June 2021

Periodic Table Solitaire

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GAME DESIGNER  UUS MAAILM

PLAYERS  1

TIME TO PLAY  10 MINUTES

AGES 7 +

OBJECTIVE  Try to place the most cards into the Periodic Table 

 

RULES

1. Shuffle the deck well. 
2. Take the top three cards and place them face up in their position of the Periodic Table i.e. Hydrogen at top left Oganesson at bottom right. 
3. If any of the cards are in the same group, one can put one of those cards back and flip over another card
4. Flip over the next card- if it is of the same group or numerically adjacent to any of the cards, then it can be placed on the board. If not then it is discarded.
5. Flip through the entire deck and see how many cards can be placed on the board. At the end of the deck count how many cards you have been able to place. 

 

 

 

THE CLASSIC DUEL CARD GAME

Download Printable PDF: PERIODIC TABLE WAR!

 

GAME DESIGNER: The Hill Family

PLAYERS: 2

TIME 20 min

Ages: 6+

OBJECTIVE: Win all of your opponent’s cards

 

RULES

 

1. Divide the deck between the two players

2. Each player turns up a card at the same time and the player with the higher Atomic Number takes both cards and puts them, face down, on the bottom of their stack.

3. If the cards have the same special power- then a War starts. Players each draw three cards and place them down in front of them. Then they each draw the next card on the top of their pile. Whoever has the higher Atomic Number wins all 14 cards. If the turned-up cards again have the same special power, another War is started.

4. If a card has two special powers it only has to match one of its special powers to the other card to start a war.

5. Scientist and Laboratory special icons will not start a war, however Anti Scientist and Anti Lab cards will start a war.

6. The player who wins all of the cards from the other wins the game. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Element Geography

DOWNLOAD PRINTABLE PDF: Element Geography

 

GAME DESIGNER: ATOM DUEL
PLAYERS: 2-3
TIME TO PLAY: 10 MINUTES
AGES: 7 +

OBJECTIVE: Win as many cards as possible

 

RULES

 

This game uses all of the element cards named after place names.

1. Take out the following 30 cards:
12, 21,29,31,32,38,39,44,52,63,65,67,68,69,70,
71,72,75,84,87,95,97,98,105,108,110,113,
115,116,117

2. Deal out the cards to all players and discard any extra cards

3. Player left of the dealer goes first and plays a card. Whosever card has the highest population wins the trick.

4. For exampleCopper (29), Yttrium (39) and Nihonium (113) are played.

5. Nihonium wins because the population of Japan (130 million) is higher than that of Cyprus ( 875,000) and Ytterby (2,900)

6. Some cards are named after the same place. Tie goes to the card with the lower Atomic Number.

7. Use the population chart as a cheat sheet ( see below) or play by memory

 

POPULATION CHEAT SHEET

ATOMIC #	NAME	NAMED FOR	POPULATION
12	Magnesium	Magnesia (region of Greece)	190,000
21	Scandium	Scandinavia	21 Million
29	Copper	Cyprus	875,000
31	Gallium	France	67 Million
32	Germanium	Germany	83 Million
38	Strontium	Scotland	5.5 Million
39	Yttrium	Ytterby (Sweden)	2,900
44	Ruthenium	Russia	146 Million
52	Tellurium	The Earth	7 Billion
63	Europium	Europe	750 Million
65	Terbium	Ytterby, Sweden	2,900
67	Holmium	Stockholm, Sweden	1 Million
68	Erbium	Ytterby, Sweden	2,900
69	Thulium	Scandinavia	21 Million
70	Ytterbium	Ytterby, Sweden	2,900
71	Lutetium	Paris, France	2.1 Million
72	Hafnium	Copenhagen	600,000
75	Rhenium	Rhine River( Rhineland Pflaz State, Germany)	4.1 Million
84	Polonium	Poland	38 Million
87	Francium	France	67 Million
95	Americium	America	330 Million
97	Berkelium	Berkeley, California, USA	122,000
98	Californium	California, USA	40 Million
105	Dubnium	Dubna, Russia	70,000
108	Hassium	Hesse State, Germany	6.3 Million
110	Darmstadtium	Darmstadt, Germany	160,000
113	Nihonium	Japan	125 Million
115	Moscovium	Moscow, Russia	12 Million
116	Livermorium	Livermore, CA	90,000
117	Tennessine	Tennessee, USA	7 Million