



An interesting premise for an educational game. Based on the periodic table, each element is depicted on its own card with its chemical properties displayed much like power levels in a trading card game. The idea is to raid your opponent’s lab to capture the highest quantity of protons by combing element cards to make new compounds. Educationally, it may help familiarize kids with basic chemcial principles, but the game makes no reference to names for compounds created when the elements are combined. So if kids want to know that combing sodium and chlorine card creates salt, they'll need to look it up on the Internet. Most of our testers were years away from taking Chemistry at school, and suggest that the game may have more significance to older kids who are actually studying chemistry.
It's a bit complicated but it looks like it is so much fun that I kept trying to understand it. We've played a few games and I am finally able to start beating my mom. There is a bonus play to try and make up the words to the new compound we made but I have not taken Chemistry yet so I do understand what it means. I can't wait to take chemistry in high school and learn what this all means! I like that I`ll be a step ahead! - Geneviève (F10)
I thought this would be a great way to introduce my kids to chemicals. My son (15) who has taken chemistry at school, loved the game. It was too complicated for my other kids (F9 and F13). I think it would be best as a chemistry learning tool for older kids. - Joyce Shane, Parent
The Rare Earth Game is a card game in which players “bond” together combinations of playing cards that depict chemical elements as cartoon characters, such as cute Oxygen, monsterous Cerium and heroic Meitnerium. Players then raid each other’s “Labs” to capture the highest quantity of “Protons”.
The Rare Earth Game is designed as both a fun game and for the education market, where innovations to help struggling science students are much needed. The game will sell through retail toy stores and online. Each game box comes with 108 cards (57 chemical element cartoon cards, 27 duplicates for game play, 11 Rare Earth chemical element cards, 12 energy cards, a promotional card and instructions).
