World War 1 by History Heroes

World War 1 by History Heroes is a card game to learn about key characters in WWI. Each card is fantastically illustrated to represent the specific World War One Hero and shows their dates, their flag of birthplace and seven memorable and often moving facts about them.

Our World War 1 Heroes start with the great unsung heroes: all the animals who served in World War 1 – they all share one card, otherwise there wouldn’t be room for anyone else in the game! World War I History Heroes covers military figures like ‘Black Jack’ Pershing, Marshal Joffre and Field-Marshal Haig. King George and his cousins, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II feature along with political leaders like Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson.  All of our Heroes shaped and influenced World War 1 from Edith Cavell to Winston Churchill, from Flora Sandes to Siegfried Sasson and from Walter Tull to the Tunnelling Companies.

2 – 6 players. Age 8 years – adult. Dimensions: 85mm x 140mm x 20mm

HOW TO PLAY

The aim of the game is to try and win the cards by guessing who the characters are from the facts read out from the cards. Players can play the games as a gentle voyage of discovery or a competitive game by choosing easy, hard or quirky facts from each card. Win the cards by guessing correctly who the character is from the facts read out on their cards. The winner is the person with the most cards at the end of the game, just the same as card games like Top Trumps.

Or, if you fancy, you can start by reading, enjoying and absorbing the facts in the History Heroes games – it doesn’t have to be a battle of wits from the get-go!

Getting Started

• You can share out all the cards and try to win them from each other by taking it in turns to read out the facts from any of your cards
• Or, you can have one master card reader, who reads out the facts for everyone else to guess and win. This works particularly well if you have a child who can read but may not know many facts to start with. The child loves being in control of the game, they absorb the information (without realising!) as they read out the facts and they LOVE seeing the adults squirm when they don’t know who the character is.

Top Tips

• If you have an equal, knowledgeable (and competitive!) group playing, try reading the facts from the bottom of the card upwards, from joker fact and hardest to easiest: the first person to guess correctly who the character is, wins the card
• If you’re all learning to begin with, make it easy and fun for all of you: use the images as clues; read the joker fact to entertain and then read the green facts for clues too
• If you have a mixed ability group, let those with knowledge guess from the hardest, red facts. Less knowledgeable players can guess from the image as a clue and the green facts
• Scoring Points: Give the different coloured facts different points: 1 for green; 2 for yellow; 3 for red; 5 for the Joker fact. Players can decide what level of fact they want to guess from to try to win points or cards
• When you’ve been playing the games for a while and think you know your facts, go completely random and introduce a dice: the facts are numbered from 1-6 so whatever number you throw is the fact you get from which to guess the character

More Ways to Play

Use History Heroes cards to play charades or a memory game – there are many, many ways to ‘skin the History Heroes’ cat! If you’ve ever played card games like Top Trumps, you will find History Heroes easy to start and play.