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Nousoury

learning by playing

Nous in an English word originating from Greek, it means brain, intellect, mind or wit. Noursory spielend lernen consequently is a new system of educational games based on the mechanisms and principles of memory games: Each game features between 18 and 30 pairs of images. The images on pairs are not identical, but are paired due to content. There are games featuring 2 cards for a sub-topic and games featuring 4 cards per sub-topic, for instance the theme box Austria features 4 cards for each province, the province itself, its capital, the colored-in area of the province on a map of Austria and one of the landmarks of the province. These 4 cards can be combined any way to a pair. The cards are laid out face-down as usual and then turned over in pairs; if you find a corresponding pair you take it. At the end each pair scores 1 point, if you find both pairs of a topic you score 1 extra point. 

Many different topics in groups: 1 – Preschool and Primary, 2 – Secondary, 3 – High school, and 4 – General knowledge. Available topics are ABC in handwriting and in printed letters, English, English – Numbers from 1 to 180, Austria and its provinces, EU and its member states, professions, The Rain Forests of Middle America and its animals.

Nousory combines well-known standard mechanisms. What makes the game particularly interesting is the hand packaging, the felicitous conversion of the different topics into card images and due to the additional information that sometimes is provided by the markings for pairs, for instance the coats of arms of the nine Austrian provinces.

Players: 1-8

Age: 6, 8+

Duration: 20+

Designer: Erwin Murlasits

Artist: not stated

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Noursory

Web: www.nousory.com

Genre: Educational Game with memory mechanism

Users: For children

Special: 1 or many players

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Well-known standard mechanism nicely varied – Educational effects from recognizing the connections between the images of a pair

Compares to :

All other memory games with different images on pairs of tiles

Other editions:

Several other theme boxes

Chance: 0

Tactic: 0

Strategy: 0

Creativity: 0

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory: 3

Communication: 0

Interaction: 1

Dexterity: 0

Action: 0