Smart Sticks Elemental Chemistry

Just as ordered. Interesting and a bit different.

Very good 👍

A great game, but I feel like the decided is an unnecessary gimmick that detracts from learning.

I played Chalk & Chuckles: Elementary Chemistry, Periodic Table Game with two kids—one who has taken chemistry at school, and the other who has very little formal chemistry instruction. I wasn’t sure if the younger one would be able to play the main game, so I had them start by putting together the Periodic Table puzzle, then told them they could take pictures of it to refer back to for the guessing game. The guessing game portion comes in two formats: the yellow “Guess Who” cards give three clues, and the other players guess which element matches the clues; and the red stick “Don’t Say It” cards are like Taboo, in which the lead player describes the element without mentioning three key descriptive words. We found that our youngest player did not know enough to read the red cards, even with the provided “secret” clues, so we made an exception that he would only choose to present the yellow cards. All of us had fun with this puzzle and game, and also learned quite a bit. This is an educational game that will be replayed in our home, at least until we’ve memorized all the answers. I do wish it came with more questions. It seems like all the elements could have been covered, and by both red and yellow sticks for each one! But we are going to learn some of the elements really well!

Nice one, my son loves it