Note: While it can be argued that wargames are inherently educational, they have not been included with the educational list (with a few exceptions). You can find the wargames (which im most cases recreate important battles in history) over in the wargames section.

 

[A]

• [Alpha Playing Cards] - A card game system that allows you to play several word games. Vowel cards are semi-wild -- each vowel card lets you choose between two vowels.
• [Alphabet Runner] - It’s more than just a game – it’s a battle of wits where imaginations are fired and words are the weapons of choice. The alphabet cards are available in upper and lower case Alphabet to download and print out.
• [Alzabandiera] - A 'geographical' challenge with questions and answers, and a pizzico of strategy that always fits. Sixty flags to find out how large the world is!

[B]

• [Black Hole Explorer] - What evidence do we have to understand Einstein’s predictions about the strange creatures known as ‘black holes’? Expect the unexpected in this board game and learn how black holes affect the space and time around them.
• [Bloody Mary: Further Intrigue in the Tudor Court] - In this game you get to relive the politics of middle Tudor England as you strive to secure your candidate for the Throne... and keep your own head.

[C]

• [Chicago] - Chicago is an auction game based on a poem by Carl Sandburg. You and your fellow players have come to seek fortune and glory in rebuilding Chicago by engaging in philanthropy to create cultural landmarks -- see who will become the grandest person in Chicago!

[F]

• [Fact Party] - Discovery, revelation, and cooperation for any number of wanderers and a library.
• [Free at Last] - Free at Last is a card driven game that simulates the conflict between the Black civil rights movement and the White segregationists in the South in the 1950s and 60s.

[H]

• [Henry VIII: Intrigue in the Tudor Court] - In this rambunctious but historically accurate game you scheme and connive to win influence with the King, so that your faction will control his chosen heir and rule all England when the King dies.

[M]

• [The Mayor of Hooverville] - Who will eat the most food? Who will wear the least tattered clothes? Who will live in the finest hovel? Who will become The Mayor of Hooverville?

[R]

• [The RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology Card Game] - The RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology has created a set of game cards illustrating basic developmental biology concepts.