Win and Advance GeoChallenge:  10 To 60 Players

What You Should Know Before Your Students Play the Game

The object of the game is for the students to use what they know (or learn) of U.S. geography to win by guessing the states of the GeoPlunge cards held by the moderators.  Your students will get clues about the moderators’ cards before they have to guess. Which clues are given will depend on what GeoChallenge cards are picked.  Some GeoChallenge cards will indicate exactly what clue to give, and some give either the players guessing, or the moderator, some choice as to what the clue will be. 

Many students are trying to guess the state of the moderator’s card at the same time.  So to win, a student has to do a better job of guessing than his or her classmates, and guess the state faster than they can.

The teacher should divide the students into groups.  There can be as few as 2 groups or as many as 6 groups, depending upon what the teacher believes will work best for the class.  Use the GeoPlunge and GeoChallenge cards.  Shuffle the decks after each round, and put the GeoChallenge cards at the bottom of the deck after they are used.

How to Play

The teacher should have each group, one group at a time, participate in a Challenge Round.

The students who win each Challenge Round then participate in the Finals Round.

The winner of the Finals Round wins the game. 

The Challenge Rounds

§         For each Challenge Round, the teacher selects a different moderator. The moderator should be a student whose group is not participating in that Challenge Round.

§         To start a Challenge Round, deal the moderator 3 cards from the GeoPlunge deck.  The moderator discards 2 of those cards.  The remaining card is the “Selected Card” for that round.

§         For each Challenge Round, the winner of that round is the first student to correctly guess the state of the Selected Card.

§         Only students in the group participating in that Challenge Round may guess. 

§         Once a student guesses incorrectly, that student is eliminated and cannot make any further guesses in that Challenge Round.

§         If all but 1 student in the participating group guesses incorrectly, the remaining student wins that Challenge Round.

§         How The Guessing Takes Place

o       After the moderator selects the Selected Card, the moderator chooses one of the players participating in the Challenge Round to pick the top card in the GeoChallenge card deck and read it out loud. This card helps determine what clue the moderator will give the students participating in the Challenge Round about the Selected Card. (If the card starts with the word “Choose”, the student who read the card will have some choice of what clue the group will receive.  If the card starts with “Opponent Chooses”, the moderator will have some choice of what clue to give).

o       Once the moderator gives the clue, any student in the group participating in the Challenge Round (who has not already been eliminated) may call out a guess.

o       If no players guess correctly, and 2 or more players in the participating group don’t want to guess, the moderator has another player pick the next card in the GeoChallenge card deck, and the players (other than those who have been eliminated) get a new clue which may help them guess the Selected Card.

o        This same process continues until a student in the participating group wins the Challenge Round by either correctly guessing the state of the Selected Card or being the only student in the group remaining after all others have guessed wrong.

The Finals Round

The Finals Round is played the same way as the Challenge Rounds except only the winners of each of the Challenge Rounds play in the Finals Round.  (The teacher chooses a new moderator for the Finals Round).

The winner of the Finals Round wins the game.