Sponsor: I. Johnson

Academic Games is a U.S. competition in which players win by out-thinking each other in mathematics, language arts, and social studies.  Some turn-based games require a kit consisting of a board and playing cubes, while other games have a central reader announcing questions or clues and each player answering individually.

This year Lake Forest will participate in two games, Presidents and Equations. In Presidents, a central reader announces three clues about a particular U.S. President. Each player must individually write down which President the clue describes.

Equations is a mathematics game created in 1965. The game uses a playing mat and 24 cubes, each labeled with numbers and mathematical operations. At the beginning of each “shake” one of two or three players uses up to six cubes to set a “goal.” All players must use the remaining cubes to devise a solution that equals the goal.