GEOlino Presents the World’s First Melting Board Game!
June 10, 2013 by dracs
Global Warming has been one of the most pressing issues of our age. Now environmental magazine GEOlino seek to teach our kids more about the dangers it represents with the world's first melting board game: Meltdown!
The idea behind it is simple. It's an instant board game, just add water.
Kids have to guide a family of polar bears across the slowly melting ice cubes in order to get them to safety, learning the affects and outcomes of global warming as they do so.
Meltdown is a great concept, perfect for use as a fun teaching device to use with kids both at home and in school environments.
The game itself looks to be pretty well designed too. It provides a mould which allows you to freeze water into the shapes you need for the tiles, which represent the ice flows the polar bears must cross. These are then laid out on a blue sponge, simultaneously simulating the Arctic waters and soaking up the melting ice cubes.
It is great when we get to see gaming being used to teach something positive. Not only is this innovative game teaching kids about global warming, it will also instil them with the ideas of fair play and team work (which will subsequently be undermined if they ever discover Munchkin).
All in all Meltdown, as well as being an original and innovative game, is a great way of conveying to kids positive lessons in a fun, interactive way. Definitely an great idea.
Fancy picking this up for your kids?
Dare I say that looks cool?
Great idea
This is a cool concept. One only hopes it’s not too easy to win or else kids might come away with the notion that the bears could totally save themselves if they really applied themselves better (I know some households where this is exactly what the parents would hope for).
I don’t think it would be a very long game where I live though. It’s 97 degrees today (Fahrenheit, for those wondering if I live on the sun) and about 3% relative humidity. Those little ice tiles would be gone in about 7 minutes.
Good point
On the other hand the house I lived in upto a couple of years ago, the ice would never bloody melt! lol
I don’t remember u living in my house
It is the only game in the world which has a seasonal difficulty setting
Really clever and innovative idea.
surly if this is aimed ad children the polar bears should have coke bottles
I think you will find that it should be Fox’s Glacier Mints 😉
This is a real creative idea even though many people don’t buy into the man made global warming and this is basically indoctrination of a false theory. But I digress, this is a good game for youngsters. If I was one of those kids parents I’d turn the heat way up so the ice melts fast. Any kids that don’t get the polar bear to the main land before it melts I’d blame them for letting that bear die and smash the meeple with a hammer. That’ll scar them about global warming for the rest of their lives. I know… Read more »
Bad Manpug! lol
However, I am going to take your idea, cross it with the game concept and come up with a new game teaching the kids about the perils of shale gas tapping called FRACK OFF! ::P