Games

Description:
See what you know about popular brands by answering questions about the brand, logo, company and industry. Test how well you remember items and the power of marketing.

Virtual Option:
https://www.jetpunk.com/tags/logo - This game is similar but only tests one item. Board game is much more robust with questions about the product too.

YEI Notes:
Fun for groups. Very interesting to play with different age groups too. Some information can be dated as advertising changes and this can be a slice in time. Example: David Spade is not the current spokesperson for Capital One.

Description:
Players take on the role of the Strike Council to lead a city-wide rebellion against HappyCorp’s takeover, while also fighting for better livelihoods for all. Players will grow their ranks, mobilize their workers, and lead strikes around Mercury City. As the Strike Council scores victories for workers, they will gain the support of more allies, from the steelworkers to the teachers, and build new bases of support from the manufacturing district to the university.

YEI Notes:
Has some strong political leanings that might or might not align with your own feelings and believes. Good for vocabulary.

Description:
Build your global empire… one company at a time! As the head of a multi-national corporation with one goal in mind – to make money – players in Globalization attempt to outbid their competitors to acquire businesses within six different industries and grow their conglomerate. Streamline operating costs build additional factories sue your competitors or take one of your subsidiaries public for big returns! Your corporate strategy will impact which companies you buy and how to take your corporation worldwide. The first to reach a billion in net worth wins!

YEI Notes:
Looks really fun

Description:
A grid of cars are parked on the board. Move the cars one at a time to try to get the red car out of the parking lot. You move onto the next level once you are able to get the red car out of the parking space

YEI Notes:
Different priced versions available

Description:
Grow your idea or inspire others to grow theirs. This game guides you from creation to realization using six waypoints: Define, Discover, Design, Develop, Deliver and Drive. A fabulous game that helps students understand what it really takes to be an entrepreneur.

Description:
Goal of the game is to create and operate your own business and build a better lifestyle in the comfort of your home.

Virtual Option Available

YEI Notes:
This game does a really nice job with the business side of being an entrepreneur. While it does incorporate many entrepreneurial mindsets, it does not touch on the innovation and creativity aspects of product development, but rather starts with the players opeing up a store to sell a product that already exists.There are still many valuable lessons in this game (partnerships, modern marketing approaches and dilemmas, investments, etc.), but know that there is a heavy emphasis on the business side of being an entrepreneur.

Description:
Roll the picture dice and create a fantastic story. Rory's Story Cubes come in themed versions too.

YEI Notes:
Great way to spark imagination. Can be altered to use the dice pictures like Disruptus or other similar pitch games (per the advice of educator, Lynn Carney).

Description:
Have 3 games and will create games for you. Virtual option available.

YEI Notes:
Not a traditional board game with entrepreneurial skills building, but cool free resource

Description:
Classic board game. Players receive a salary and are paid at the end of each month. They must use this to pay their bills and have the ability to take out a loan if needed. Person with the most money (or least amount of debt) at end of a certain number of months, wins. 3 months takes about 30 minutes.

Virtual Option:
Yes, but players need board, and adaptations

YEI Notes:
I have not played this since my middle school days but remember loving it. I have had a couple teachers request it for the Be Enspired! mini grant so it is making its way back into the classroom.

Description:
Build a Rube Goldgerg type contraption to catch a mouse. Get your mouse around the board without being caught while building a mouse trap to catch opponents mice.

YEI Notes:
Introduces students to Rube Goldberg Machines and using common objects for different reasons.