Board Games

Description

The FIMS Graduate Library has a small collection of board games available for demonstration and instruction for a variety of FIMS subject areas including: cataloguing, collection management, and information literacy.

The board games are available for FIMS' graduate students, staff, and faculty to borrow.

Collection Items

The Game About Wikipedia: The Online Encyclopedia
Players: 2-4 players

Playing Time: 30 minutes

Age: 8+

Description: It's informative, it's collaborative, and it's fun! The game challenges players with 900 questions about Wiki topics such as Clement Attlee, chocolate, 60's television... and…

Senet
Players: 2 players

Description: Senet is an ancient Egyptian board game similar to backgammon. As in backgammon, the objective is to bear all of one's pawns off first. A couple of interesting differences is that there are safe and trap spaces on…

Ur
Players: 2 players

Description: This two-player game has been published under different names but it is a simple race game very much like Backgammon. The game was popular across the Middle East among people of all social strata, and boards for…
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