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"Rock, Paper, Scissors" With Circuit Boards
Thinkzone offers a free illustrated guide for a two-player circuit board game based on the game "Rock, Paper, Scissors." Players make an electrical circuit board using supplies such as switches, lights, wires, batteries and tools. The game is played by each player pressing a button simultaneously for their choice of a rock, paper, or scissors. The wiring lights a button through circuitry, declaring the winner of each round.
Circuit Board Quiz Boards
You can make your own electrical circuit board game, which will light up when you choose the correct answers in a quiz format. Christmas lights, batteries, rubber bands, electrical tape, aluminum foil and paper clips create an electrical circuit. Quiz questions are posted on the left and answers in random order are posted on the right. Circuits illuminate the lights when the correct answers are chosen. Step-by-step instructions, with photos, for this quiz board are available online at Philadelphia Cares Discovery Program's website. This site also posts definitions of several terms such as "circuit," "charge" and "conductor."
Circuit Board Kits
Circuit Hut sells a wide variety of circuit board game kits. One of these game kits allows up to four players to make a circuit board that creates buzzers. The circuits identify who pressed their buzzers first. You can also buy a circuit board game to make electronic dice. A button is pressed and a die face simulated by LED lights is displayed. A circuit board memory game is also available, where four buttons are used to mimic randomly generated patterns displayed on LED lights. This game has four different difficulty levels. Circuit Hut also sells educational electronic snap circuits, which are circuit board science kits to make projects such as doorbells, radios, flashlights and alarms. Nine different models are available, and no soldering is required.