By Margaret Duncan, Ed.D.
The Histocrats
support the idea of incorporating board-games into your personal life as well
as in the classroom. As such, we help
support a local board-gaming group.
Within this group any and all board-game enthusiasts are welcome to join.
We host Game Nights every first and third Friday night of the month. As part of our gaming group, we also
recommend history centric games that are fun to play each week. These games receive our “Game of the Week”
distinction. Recommended games are a mix
of cooperative, card games, as well Euro style games.
Letters from Whitechapel, Fantasy Flight Games
Letters from
Whitechapel is a thematic board game of deduction and bluffing in which one
player takes the role of the infamous Jack the Ripper, while up to five other
players are detectives working together to pursue him through Victorian London.
After committing his horrible murders, Jack must outmaneuver the detectives in
the tangled streets of the Whitechapel District. Meanwhile, the detectives must
use clever deduction and their superior numbers to hunt Jack the Ripper down
before he can kill again or elude them forever.
Gone With The Wind, Classic Games Inc
A trivia board-game
with a small twist. In addition to drawing cards and answering questions in
your quest to win, this game includes two complete decks of playing cards.
These form the 104 question cards, but can be used as regular playing cards as
well. Instead of spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds, we have Scarletts, Rhetts,
Mammies and Ashleys. In addition to the game itself, there are also rules for
playing other games with only the cards, including variations on rummy and go
fish, as well as other games that make use of the trivia questions.
Moonshot,
This board game puts
you in command as you develop rockets, launch spacecraft, avoid hazards and
earn mission patches in a thrilling race to be the first player to land on the
Moon. By combining the strategy of a classic board game with the tactics of
collectible card games, Moonshot The Game creates an entirely new gaming
experience -- one that's easy to learn, strategically challenging, highly
informative and an incredible blast to play!
1960: The Making of the President, Z-Man Games
In 1960: the Making
of the President, you take on the role of Kennedy or Nixon in vying to lead
America through an era of turbulent change. The candidates must contend with
all the great issues of the day, from the cold war to civil rights to voters'
pocket books. This is an election that will turn on positioning and momentum.
The contest is fought on an electoral map of the United States as it stood in
1960. As with a real election campaign, the challenge is to adapt your game
plan as the ground shifts out from under you. There are never enough resources
or time to do everything, but you need to make the tough calls to propel
yourself into the White House.
*All product
descriptions are from the manufacturer.
