This is a great game to introduce children and adults to well-known and little-known players in the STEM fields through history. Famous people like Marie Curie, George Washington Carver, and Blaise Pascal, and not-so famous people like Hypatia, Al-Khwarizmi, and Sophie Germain. The game has a lot more than those people too. It’s easy to play and the illustrations are beautiful.

The game reminds me a bit of Disney’s Villainous, in that you can attach items to the heroes (or villains in Villainous), and that at the end of your turn you replenish your hand up to 6 cards. It’s a lot simpler than Villainous, though, thank goodness. (I love the game Villainous but it can feel overwhelming to learn at first.)

The goal of the game is to get the most points possible by creating a scientific method timeline with a card for each step of the scientific method: observe, hypothesize, experiment, analyze data, and publish results. As soon as someone creates that timeline the game is almost over, with everyone getting a final turn to even turns up. You create the timeline by playing hero cards that match up in color with a step in the scientific method. Once you get the hang of it, you can play a game in 10-20 minutes. I love that the game comes with a little booklet with mini bios of the heroes to introduce you to all the different characters. Cards that feature items, locations, and special powers spice it up a bit. You could make it super educational by talking about each person or item a bit when that card is played or not, if you are playing with people who don’t like to do that. I love that it features women as well as women and people of color and from different continents, not just Europe and America. I give it 5 out of 5 stars! Pair it with a picture book about one of these people to give you that perfect harmonizing #bookandagameaday feeling. Many of these people have picture book biographies about them so that would be easy.

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