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EPIC collectors cards
There are
lots of games that you can play with the Nutritional Collectors Cards.
You
will see that each card shows a different food or drink. A card tells
you how much vitamin C, fibre, calcium, iron and total fat there is in
a given food of a specific portion weight.
Each food
belongs to one of 7 families: fruit, sweets and snacks, vegetable, hot
meal, starchy food, breakfast and dairy.
Collectors card game - how
to play?
How
many people?
A minimum of
two.
What
do you need?
•
The collectors' cards!
•
An eagerness to have fun!
Aim
of the game
The aim of
the game is to 'win' all of the cards (whilst learning about the food
that we eat!).
How
to play
1.
Shuffle the cards.
2.
Deal the cards out equally to all players (if they do not divide
equally, take out some of the cards so that they do).
3.
Hold the cards face down, one beneath the other. When the game begins,
turn over the first card, but do not reveal it to anyone else.
4.
The youngest player starts first. (S)He looks at their first card and
chooses a category from vitamin C, fibre, calcium, iron, total fat and
portion weight. Aloud, they read out the category name and
corresponding value. For example, "for Broccoli, the Vitamin
C is..."
5.
Everyone else then reads out the value for Vitamin C (or the chosen
category) on the top card that they have turned over, and the person
with the highest value for the chosen category wins those top cards
from all of the other players. S(He) then puts all of these cards to
the bottom of his/her pile.
6.
The winner of the round then flips over the next card at the top of
his/her pile, looks at the card, chooses a category and again reads the
value aloud. As with before, the highest card wins.
7.
The game continues until one player wins all of the cards. When this
happens, and in the interests of being good sports, all of the other
players should applaud the victor, and everyone should shake hands.
8.
In the rare instance that two or more players have the same winning
value on their cards, they would then turn over the next card on their
pile and read the value for the category initially selected. The person
with the highest value on this second comparison will get the other
personís card AS WELL AS the ones from the first part of the round.
Variations
If
you are short of time, you can set a time-limit; and the player with
the most cards when the time is up is declared the winner.
How to play 'Happy
Families'?
An
alternative game you could play with the EPIC-collectors cards
How
many people?
A minimum of
three, a maximum of seven (but a little less is probably better).
What
do you need?
The
collectors' cards! You should have seven sets of four cards
each. The sets, or 'food groups', available are:
•
Fruit
•
Vegetables
•
Sweets and Snacks
•
Breakfast
•
Hot meal
•
Dairy
•
Starchy foods
Each card
within a food group has a mark on the bottom right hand corner of the
card, showing a:
•
Fork
•
Knife
•
Spoon
•
Plate
Aim
of the game
To
collect as many sets of familial cards as possible (4 cards of the same
food group, each having a different mark in the corner).
How
to start the game
1.
Shuffle the cards.
2.
Deal out all of the cards, making sure you divide the cards as equally
as possible between all of the players.
3.
To make it easier, each player should then sort the cards in their hand
according to the individual food groups.
The
rules
1.
The youngest player starts by asking any other person at the table if
(s)he has a card belonging to the group of foods which the player wants
to collect a set of (likely to be the set which the player already has
most cards of in his/her hand). The player will have to be
specific as to which marking on the card they want, for example: 'Do
you have the spoon of the fruit group?'
2.
If the player is told that the person does not have the desired card,
the turn to ask the questions passes over to the player on the
left-hand side (clockwise).
3.
However, if the player who is asked has the card, (s)he must give it to
the person asking. The person asking the question will then get another
chance to ask the same person (or any other person at the table) for
another card (not necessarily of the same food group).
4.
A player canít ask questions anymore when (s)he is without cards.
5.
The game ends when all sets are collected. The person with the most
sets is declared the winner.
The
information contained on these collectors cards is for general
information purposes only. The nutritional information is based on
approximate household measures and does not represent recommended
portions for individuals.
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