A fun, quick game that will help your children remember facts about famous people from the past.
History Heroes make educational card games about famous people from the past. Categories include kings and queens, inventors, scientists, artists and sports.
Each game consists of 40 cards with facts about a famous person from a particular subject. Cards are split into different colours representing easy, medium and hard questions.
Each player is given the same amount of cards. Take turns reading out a fact from your card and ask the player to the left to guess the famous name.
If they get it correct, they steal the card and place it face down in their ‘winning’ pile. If they lose, you get to keep your card and place it on your winning pile.
Play continues in this way until all the cards have been read out. The winner is the one with the most cards in their pile.
Questions range from easy to hard so younger players have a chance of beating the more knowledgeable members of the family.
With most games, you can make up your own house rules, perhaps with one person being the master card reader. The person who gets the answer correct first by shouting out takes the card.
Watch our video and you’ll be up-and-running in less than five minutes.
History Heroes Cards improve children’s reading skills as well as teaching them important facts about famous people from the past
At their website, each box (with 40 cards) is priced at £9.99.
They have deals where if you purchase two boxes it costs £19.00 and their mega pack (12 boxes) is £99.00.
Prices at Amazon are the same, but there are occasionally second-hand versions you can get a little cheaper.
History Heroes was first dreamed up by a history teacher in 2010. Three years later, he handed over History Heroes to Alex Ehrmann who currently owns the business.
Alex relaunched the idea with a few changes and she won Junior Magazine’s Best Toy Design Award in 2014.
Since then, the game has gone from strength to strength. Both Scientists and Inventors versions have been endorsed by The Science Museum in London.
All of which isn’t too shabby when you consider that the game is essentially a pack of cards.
You might be surprised to learn that today’s famous people enjoy playing History Heroes. According to their website, Jeremy Paxman, Kate Winslet, Bear Grylls and Ranulph Fiennes have all bought a box. I’m sure Jeremy always wins – he knows everything about everything!
Below we’ve reviewed History Heroes Card Games. We bought Kings & Queens, Scientists and Inventors. They are all the same game (just different famous names from the past).
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