CHICAGO GAME and CARD has been producing Card Games, Board Games and Puzzles for over 30 years. Our clients range from fortune 500 companies, to individuals with a dream to see their game played by many other people. Our services include the Design, Manufacture, Assembly and Distribution of games for our clients.

We offer the opportunity for individuals and companies to have their games manufactured at a very reasonable cost. In addition, prototypes are made before manufacturing begins to ensure the quality and makeup of the game.

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Link: http://www.littlefrogpublishing.com/

Writes of Passage is a unique and enjoyable game that brings six to eight players together to craft six to eight stories. The game is an ideal resource for English teachers and creative writing instructors. That's because each writer contributes to each story in this game of cooperation. As game play progresses, students learn the importance of genre and setting in framing their stories. Also, by participating in several stories with their classmates, students experience the need for continuity in plot, as well as the need for proper character development

Whether they are students or not, players will enjoy Writes of Passage, which unleashes creativity by randomly combining improbable genres, settings and characters. One story might call for a Western set on Mars, and another might be a soap opera with a clown as the main character. The combinations are endless, and so are the possibilities!

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Energizer Live It Up! Lounge

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Snoots Toots! A Kids Game of Empathy and Manners is an amazingly awesome therapeutic board game from Dr. Poppy Moon’s Imagucation Creation Workshop! Kids ages 6-12 will role-play their way through a variety of situations requiring manners and empathy skills. Whether they are acting out a behavior, showing proper conduct, telling about a situation, or imagining a feeling, kids will be learning skills that are critical to social and emotional development. Simple setup and easy instructions make Snoots Toots! A Kids Game of Empathy and Manners the perfect game for individual, small group, and classroom guidance!

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Link: http://www.jmheducation.com/our_work/children/bright_smiles_us.html

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This game is part of JMH's series to enable teachers to teach the important topic of oral health during today's school day, which is typically short on time.

Link: http://www.gontzagames.com/

Teach your children about Esther's Megillah by playing Pass the Grogger!

Objective is to make pairs, Esther with Esther, etc.

The only way to make a pair with Haman is to cover him up with a Grogger!

This is one Grogger you won't mind the children playing with.

FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

Link: http://www.gontzagames.com/

Game is played by making pairs: Santa with Santa, etc.

The only card that can save a child from getting coal in their stocking is a tree with presents!

Children will play this game long after the other Christmas presents are broken!

FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY!

Link: http://www.jmheducation.com/our_work/youth/real_deal.html

The Real Deal Game is a stay-in-school education program that is part of a national public service campaign, Operation Graduation. The overall approach is to engage students in developing their own stay-in-school strategies while having fun.

The game was developed by JMH Education in a partnership with American School Counselors Association (ASCA) and funded by The Ad Council .

The program includes a card game and leader’s guide for middle school counselors and their students.

Link: http://www.shortcut2learning.com

Shortcut 2 Learning - Computer Basics Board Game

Imagine trying to answer questions or troubleshoot computer questions for someone who doesn't even know what a "desktop" is, let alone the difference between a modem and a motherboard, a hard drive or a web browser.

Mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, even peers – all with the same basic questions, trying to get answers from savvy computer users with waning patience. You throw you hands up in despair and walk your dad through adding a Favorite in Internet Explorer for the fifteenth time. You tell your mom you're sorry, but the tech support person who told her to reformat her hard drive didn't consider the fact that she hadn't backed up all her data and didn't have the installation discs for Microsoft Word. Her critical files are now nowhere to be found and she also has to buy another copy of Microsoft Office so that critical file is now gone and she has to go buy a copy of Office.

There has got to be a better way. So, Computer Basics is born.

They've bought the books – which now sit with an inch of dust on a bookshelf. They've considered a computer class, but aren't really motivated or interested enough to sign up, so how do you get them to learn about computers? Make it FUN. Make it EASY. Make it something that is SOCIAL. Make it something they will do again and again until they really LEARN it – not just once when their son-in-law is sitting by their side telling them how.

Cost – MSRP $34.95

The owners of Shortcut 2 Learning have gone to great lengths to have the Computer Basics board game manufactured in the USA. From the game board to the box to the playing pieces Computer Basics has been created from parts sourced right here in America.

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DAM IT - The River Conquest Game

For more info, conact Rodney Benesh
Damitgame@hotmail.com
1416 1st Ave NW
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52405

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Glo*Ball Impact is a fun an educational way to learn about global warming.
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Link: http://1stsemester.com/

1st Semester Boardgame is an innovative, entertaining, and educational tool designed to ignite thought provoking conversation about the range of decisions and circumstance college students experience during their first semester of college.
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The PRO Development Ladder Game is an interactive, competitive and exciting developmental simulation which incorporates realistic elements of organizational dynamics.

During the game, participants are faced with opportunities and barriers that are inherent in any organization. Each player must choose an opportunity card and a barrier card, then play the game
based on the unique “cards they are dealt.” There are rewards, consequences and exhilarating moments as participants race to get to the top.

The game can be incorporated as a powerful component of your organization’s leadership, development or mentoring learning experiences; as an enlightning teambuilding exercise; as an
empowering developmental tool for your affinity groups; as strategic orientation for diversity councils; as an engaging opener for your next meeting or conference.

Link: http://missionkijani.com

YOU can make a difference on this Planet. Mission Kijani shows you how.

Discover your power now!

Link: http://www.gen1400.com/dicebaseball.php

Gen1400 Gaming presents....DICE Baseball...

It's the bottom of the ninth with the opposing teams best hitter at the plate. You are ahead by one run and the tying run is on third and the winning run is on second. Your starting pitcher has pitched a great game but he is tiring. He also has been struggling versus left handed hitters and he is facing one right now. You decide to make the walk to the mound to call in your left handed reliever who dominates left handed hitters. Both teams are standing in the dugout and the winner of this game advances to the World Series. You watch as your reliever delivers the pitch to the plate...............

In DICE Baseball you get every player from every major league team who appeared in at least 18 at bats or 18 innings pitched. Over 900 different players. You can replay the entire 2008 season or just replay your favorite teams schedule. You can even replay the 2008 World Series. They are your players and you can do what you want with them.

DICE Baseball uses more than a dozen different formulas to calculate each hitter and pitcher. Players will perform just like they do on the field. Each and every player is rated individually.

We take our time running each player through our formulas. That gives you the most accurate baseball board game simulation ever created!

We all know what board games are but which were the first created and when? How have board games retained their popularity with the inventions of television, video games and computers?

Some suggest that the Mancala family of games were the earliest, which at the time were played with beans or stones being moved around in parallel rows dug in the dirt, were found in 5870 BC in Jordan. Others say it was Senet, which seems to have been the early ancestor of Backgammon, found in Predynastic Egyptian in 3500 BC. Another suggested early game was The Royal Game of Ur, referring to the city-state, which was home to Abraham, dating back to more than 2500 BC.

Popularity of board games seems to have jumped in the 20th century when the middle class had more disposable income and more free time to play them. Many classic board games date back to this time period. Monopoly, Risk, Scrabble and Clue are just a few that date back to the first half of the 20th century.

In the late 20th century, when television became more popular, board games started to lose their popularity. It was then that board games were made based on television shows in order to bring the consumer back.

Between television and the growing popularity of video games, the board game industry had to come up with more challenging games to keep people interested. Trivia games such as Trivial Pursuit answered this need in the 1980’s.

Around the year 2000, when computers had become the top form of entertainment the board game industry had to change yet again to answer this need. Many games have been made recently using CD’s or DVD’s as an additional component to the game. Some of these games then become interactive. Yet in others the video component asks the questions of a trivia game. Players still utilize the board and pieces but refer to the CD or DVD to play the game.

While the Board Game industry is ever changing with societal changes, it always remains a constant in family entertainment.