MONSTER PROBLEMS
Co-author Arjan van Houwelingen | Illustrations: Marco Westerkamp | Ages: 8-99+ | Players: 2-6 | Playing time: 20 min.
Links: BoardGameGeek
All the cards in the middle on the table contain either heads (problems) or limbs (solutions) related to child poverty. On your turn, you choose two of the cards from the center.
If you choose a problem and thereby choose the solutions to that same problem (indicated by a color code), you discover that the cards after flipping them, might be of the same color. If so, they may be attached to each other to form complete monsters.
Each player who has provided a problem with enough corresponding limbs scores points for this “solved” monster. The player who has scored the most points at the end of the game wins the game.
Monster problems is a so-called “serious game,” an educational card game about child poverty, developed in response to ideas from the Council of Children of the Municipality of Groningen. The members of this council proposed the problems and named the solutions. In the process, they drew all the monsters in the game. The game is distributed among the primary schools in the province of Groningen.
