In this session you'll learn about engaging children, teenagers, and adults with games in your next Seder. We’ll cover Seder tested ideas such as the prize shuk, plague dice, TorahLine game, Crossing the Sea game, and Matzah-Maror-Pesach game. We’ll get hands on with some of the gaming ideas to ensure this year’s Seder is the best yet. At the end we'll raffle off a copy of the TorahLine game.
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]]>How do you keep the kids learning the Exodus story the entire week of Passover? Easy, bribe them.
Download the free TorahLine Passover Challenge PDF. Requires TorahLine for Passover Game.
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Here’s how it works. The 2nd edition TorahLine game comes with 100 cards from Torah portions Shemot, Va’eira and Bo. Players arrange them in order by guessing the correct chapter and verse. In the Challenge, you shuffle the entire deck of cards and play against yourself. For each card that you get correct, you earn cash at the end of the Passover holiday. Kids can take the challenge as many times as they want during Passover. The payout is based on the highest score during Passover. For example, if you reward your kid with $.50 per correct card and their best score was 80 correctly placed cards, they would earn $40. You can use whatever amount seems right for your kid, e.g. $0.10 per card, $1 per card.
Suggestions:
We're listed in the table of contents and can be found on pages 14-15 in the January 2021 edition.
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...Take a jar, and put an omerful of manna within, and place it before Hashem, to be kept throughout your generations.
...קַח צִנְצֶנֶת אַחַת וְתֶן–שָׁמָּה מְלֹֽא–הָעֹמֶר מָן וְהַנַּח אֹתוֹ לִפְנֵי ה' לְמִשְׁמֶרֶת לְדֹרֹֽתֵיכֶֽם:
on the sixth day they gathered twice as much [manna]...and all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moshe.
וַיְהִי בַּיּוֹם הַשִּׁשִּׁי לָֽקְטוּ לֶחֶם מִשְׁנֶה שְׁנֵי הָעֹמֶר לָֽאֶחָד וַיָּבֹאוּ כָּל–נְשִׂיאֵי הָֽעֵדָה
וַיַּגִּידוּ לְמֹשֶֽׁה:
Our illustrator Guri created a picture of lots of mana. Just prior to this verse the Jewish people had been gathering mana each day of the week. Everyone ended up with the same amount per person, exactly an omer. However on Friday, the day before Shabbat everyone ended with a double portion. No one had told them, though G-d had told Moshe.
Laura our art director stated, "I think it needs to convey a double portion! Can you do two smaller side by side with swirls for scent above?"
Guri stated, "Yeah no problem I will make the adjustments."
Laura's feedback, "Cool! but kind of looks like challah."
Guri came back with another version
and then LOVE IT!
Packed with 90 colorful cards and providing hours of fun for ages six and up, TorahLine Exodus from Egypt covers the events in the first three Torah portions from the enslavement in Egypt to the 10 plagues to the first Passover to the eventual freedom from Egypt.
“As the father of four kids, I was looking for a way to make learning the Torah just as fun as playing a video game or watching a movie,” says Chesley ‘Akiva’ Coughlin, Founder, 613 Games. “To appeal to kids’ short attention spans, I knew I had to create something captivating, quick, and visual to help kids learn the events in the Exodus. We’ve product tested the game with over one hundred kids, and the results have been amazing.”
The front of each card has an event title, a hand-drawn illustration, and verse text. The back includes the Torah portion and chapter and verse numbers. At the start of the game, players are dealt starting events on which to build their line of cards in sequence. Players then take turns drawing cards from the pile and correctly (or incorrectly) placing them in line in order by chapter and verse. After all the cards are gone, the player with the most correct cards in his or her line wins.
“We wanted children involved in creating the game,” said Laura Coughlin, Art Director, 613 Games. “In Seattle, we ran a competition with local schools for illustrations. As a result, more than half the cards are illustrated by Seattle-area kids. Kids find the images captivating and engaging because they were made by other kids.”
Student, Rabbi, and educator reviews of the game have been resoundingly positive. (For more testimonials, please visit here.
“I played TorahLine with our high school students and my own family, as well. Everyone found the game stimulating, fun and a great way to review the Exodus narrative.” Rabbi Shaul Engelsberg, Principal of Derech Emunah said.
The game makes it easy to adjust the difficulty for each player, making it ideal for older children and families. It also comes with a bonus trivia game that can be played in the car or at the dinner table.
The TorahLine card game is available on Amazon.com with free shipping for Prime members at http://amzn.to/2cquRlQ. To learn more about the TorahLine card game go to https://613games.com or e-mail info@613games.com. Find them on Facebook.
About 613 Games
Based in Seattle, Washington, 613 Games is a gaming company that designs card games that captivate children and families to foster fun learning through interactive game play. The games are designed to make learning fun and effortless. The games have been used to educate children at home and in the classroom, at camps, and after school programs.
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