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Check out our list of games we’ve reviewed and organized so you can make entrepreneurial learning even more fun.
Venture Lab Pitch Game
Creativity, Persuasion, Pitching
Description:
Use computer generated flashcard to combine an adjuective, noun, and verb into a unique product. Player must convince other player why they need this product. For extra challenge, add a location, material, and/or customer into the mix.
Famous Failure Cards
Growth Mindset
Description:
"Go Fish" on steroids, this fun & challenging personal development card game teaches life lessons from true biographical examples of Famous Failures.
Virtual Option:
Quizlet decks
YEI Notes:
Content might be dated but comes with blank card so you can create your own famous person/category.
M is for Money - Matching Game
Finance
Description:
Print these free cards (double sided) then play the matching game with your young student.
YEI Notes:
Creative twist on matching game. Might want to laminate the cards for durability. It would be nice to have definitions or visuals that show value of items (nickel = 5 pennies), but maybe that will come in version 2.
Game Ideas Blog (to read)
Creativity
Description:
make your own game using traditional board games, add creativity to your existing games
YEI Notes:
Blog from Creativity and Education: https://creativityandeducation.com/family-game-night-with-a-creative-twist/
Blokus
Creativity, Strategy, Flexibility
Description:
Take your tetris-type pieces and arrange them on the board one by one only touching your next piece touching corners only. First to run out of pieces wins, Strategy and math take over at the end of the game.
YEI Notes:
New version like 3D and Trigon are super fun and very challenging too.
VentureLab Entrepreneurial Mindset Cards & Random Card Generator
All Entrepreneurial Mindset
Description:
Entrepreneurship is more than a starting a business. It’s a way of thinking you can practice at school, work, or anywhere in life. Recognizing these mindsets is an essential part of growing as an entrepreneur.
YEI Notes:
Great tips and ideas for using the cards as games, recognition, and with different groups.
Pick Me Up Piggy
Co-operation, Problem Solving, Storytelling, Memory
Description:
Players tell a story about why one of the four characters need to go to the store to start the game. Then players take turns drawing cards and driving piggy's truck around town. If they can run all of piggy's errands and pick up the four characters before they run out of gas, they win!
YEI Notes:
The game is being discontinued (11/8/23). Beautiful board and pieces, well made
Lion In My Way
Creativity, Persuasion, Co-operation, Negotiation
Description:
Cooperative game mode and competitive game mode - play with teammates or against them! Players draw random hands from 100 tool cards and try to offer the group the most compelling ideas of how to use the tools in your hand to overcome the obstacles. You are trying to get home by getting through 24 random obstacles. Use your negotiating and persuasion skills to argue for why the group should use your tool.
YEI Notes:
Two games in one.
Race to the Treasure
Co-operation, Strategy, Goal Setting
Description:
Make a path from start to the treasure and collect the three keys that open the treasure's locks before the Ogre gets there. Strategize, cooperate, and build the path together as a team with your friends.On your turn, draw one tile from the bag, it will either show a piece of path or a picture of the Ogre. Place the tile down where you would like it or move the Ogre up one position. Work together to beat the Ogre to the treasure
YEI Notes:
Very simple - no reading - children as young as 2 can play
Goods and Services
Economics, Social Studies, History
Description:
Introducing basic economics to 1st-5th graders. Learn about wants and needs
YEI Notes:
Many different varieties including bingo. I am having trouble sourcing this game. Not sure if it is still being made (3/3/23)
