EDTEC 670 Board Game Project Proposal Detail

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Title	Life's a Gamble
Description	The more you know about the world, the more successful you can be. To start the game, players pick a country or countries from the CIA World Fact Book (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ ) or from the deck of cards. You get one playing board for each country (and you can play multiple boards simultaneously as in BINGO), as long as no one else has picked the same country, but your points are divided by the number of boards you play. On each board there are bars from left to right. Each bar represents a category such as health, wealth, knowledge, peace. The first person to fill all of the bars on a board wins. The playing dice have sub categories such as food, housing, income, education, social stability, religious tolerance that contribute to one or more of the categories. You roll the dice to see what subcategory to look up in the CIA World Fact Book. (Players can mutually agree on other sources as long as all of the subcategories are included.) And the board displays the formulas for calculating the value of the subcategory. The CIA World Fact Book tells you what values to plug into the formula for the subcategory and the player decides, within the rules, which category to apply it to. For instance food can be applied to health or wealth. A turn might go something like this. Player A rolls the dice and gets "Food: multiply number of acres planted per person by 0.01." The player then looks up these facts in the CIA World Fact Book, calculates the value, and moves their marker the appropriate number of spaces. Roles: I can do an acceptable job at any of the roles, and will take whatever role is not claimed, but I’m sure some of you can perform any of these roles better than I.
Submitted by:	Shawn Shepard, shawn.shepard@cox.net