Apr 14 2008
14-year-old creates chemistry trading card game Elementeo
Kids are always making up games. I sure did. I vaguely remember a variant of board game baseball that I came up with in second grade.
But this one sure has me beat. Anshul Samar, a 14-year-old boy from California has created a science-based fantasy card game called Elementeo. According to the blog Geek Dad on the Wired.com blog network:
“The game is based on a 121-card deck of chemical elements, compounds and catalysts. Every card has an explanation of the element or compound’s uses and chemical properties. For example, the Oxygen card can rust neighboring metal cards and the Copper Conductor card can shock any metals. The oxidation state of an element is used as its attack power, and its physical state determines its movement on the board. The goal of the game is to reduce the opponents electrons to zero through strategic use of each card’s chemical properties.”
So far, Anshul has received $500 from the California Association of the Gifted to craft a prototype and wowed the folks at the entrepreneur conference TiECON 2007.
I hope that Anshul is successful. I’d love to see my child playing this game when the time comes. Chemistry was one of my least favorite subjects. Imagine how different it could have been if some fun was infused into the learning process, but that was far beyond most of the science teachers in the school where I grew up.
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I just happen to have an ancient chemistry kit sitting in a closet at my house. You’re welcomed to collect a few trading cards and play with it. I think the last owner’s name was Merlin. He doesn’t use it anymore.
That old, huh? Hey, bring it to the new place and maybe Max will be interested in it at some point.