5th Annual Games For Health Conference

It may seem a little ironic to bring a card game to a conference that is focused on technology, but that’s part of the diversity that you should expect from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations Games for Health conference.

The card game I’m talking about is just for fun - Top Exergames - that I have had a few packs made and brought these over to raise awareness that “exergames” is far wider than just Nintendo Wii. Each pack contains 38 different exergames from EA SPORTS Active to the Atari Family Trainer. Each card has a number of categories that can be compared between cards - the highest number wins!

I grew up Top Trump style cards games and the game is second nature to me but it does appear, from initial  reactions, that people today have lost the skills how to have fun without computers and games consoles! So to bring back a little traditional skill here’s the rules.

• Shuffle the pack of cards and deal them evenly to all players
• One card is “Wii Fit” - the person who has this card goes first
• Players now place their cards face down in front of them

• Everyone takes the top card from their own deck
• The starting player calls out a category and the value of this on the card
• All cards are compared and the player with the highest value wins all the cards (lowest for year introduced) in that hand
• The winner of the hand takes the next card and calls the next category and value
• Play continues until one player has won all the cards

There’s a few packs that will be available to delegates just outside the main conference hall at during lunch break - enjoy them!