14 Year Old Creates Chemistry Trading Card Game

Was surfing my RSS feeds today and I came across this awesome story from Wired.com's GeekDad Blog.

I've always found RPG Card Games fascinating. I don't play them that often, only because I don't have a lot of local friends who play them. The only card games that I have played are Munchkins and Super Munckin(which I actually own). However, with that being said, games like Magic The Gathering wildly available, I love it when I see new variants of a genre. Especially from a 14 Year Old.

According to Wired.com:

The game is based on a 121-card deck of chemical elements, compounds and catalysts. Every card has an explanation of the element or compound's uses and chemical properties. For example, the Oxygen card can rust neighboring metal cards and the Copper Conductor card can shock any metals. The oxidation state of an element is used as its attack power, and its physical state determines its movement on the board. The goal of the game is to reduce the opponents electrons to zero through strategic use of each card's chemical properties.

Now this is a genius idea. It only took a $500 grant to make this happen, and then wowed attendees at an entrepreneur's convention.

Not only does this make chemistry fun, it's educational. I always find educational games to be really boring, but this takes it to a whole new level.

Where can I get me a set of these?! I want to rule the world with C3H80!

As always I remain, obediently yours.

Steve "Snowball" Saylor