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ChemCraft is a two-player game blending knowledge of chemistry with familiar, exciting mediums. Created for a Sophomore Chemistry class by student Olivia Bridges, ChemCraft is intended to teach future generations through creative and engaging means.



What's ChemCraft?
Essentially, ChemCraft is an improved Battleship. Two players sit facing one another with the game in between them. The board itself is gridded, chess style, with coordinates on the side (again, like chess boards) so one can name each square. Dividing the board is a panel preventing players from seeing one another's half. Each player starts with 12 cards that have an element's name and characteristics on it (metal or nonmental, reacts with HCI/doesn't react with HCI, etc.) and must arrange them on the squares of the board to form "crafts" (like ships in battleship; rows of 2, 3, 4, or 5, but all must have a common characteristic - for example, all of their cards say they are a metal). The game is played much like one would Battleship; you "hit" an opponent's craft by guessing the correct coordinate of one point in it and answering a trivia question from the "question card stack" correctly [if this is successful, the victim must say out loud which element was hit and hand over the destroyed ChemCard]. To completely annihilate a craft, one must have hit all the coordinates AND guessed the common characteristic of all of the elements of the craft. One wins by sinking all of their opponent's crafts.

Should ChemCraft incorporate more characters (Candyland style) or leave it simple (like Monopoly)? The more the merrier! Simple - don't overdo it. Neither! Just add more ChemCards. Remove all the rendering completely - traditional art is the way to go.