Instead of simply calling out numbers, the balls have the names of the elements of the periodic table inscribed on them too.
The rest of the rules remain the same, except the score cards only display the chemical abbreviations, so you need to know them all before you can play, and of course the compère must make up appropriate jokey quips for deviants such as Selenium, or Tellurium.-- xenzag, Oct 23 2010 (?) Baked http://www.youtube....watch?v=xINaSnCjJ9A"Big Science" group doing periodic table bingo [nineteenthly, Oct 27 2010] periodic table card game http://www.elementaurs.com/This is a bit closer to [19thly]'s top trumps idea, but with a neat mechanism for teaching valency. [pertinax, Oct 30 2010] Only vaguely related - too bad the first link is no longer. People_20Watching_2...nger_20Hunt_20Bingo [normzone, Feb 07 2012] There really should be a Bingonium.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Oct 24 2010 This is really smart+-- blissmiss, Oct 24 2010 That's tomorrow's session sorted. I was going with periodic table Top Trumps, but now i think i'll do this. Definite bun from me!-- nineteenthly, Oct 24 2010 [+]-- 8th of 7, Oct 24 2010 Bingo is commonly used in language classes- I like the chemical twist.-- Jinbish, Oct 24 2010 Even better, shout out just the numbers, but only have the symbols printed on the card. Play for money. Science education for fun and profit. Like the scene in "Evolution" where David Duchovny gets inspiration from Julianne Moore's T-shirt.
IT HAS THE PERIODIC TABLE PRINTED ON IT, you dirty-minded bunch of reprobates !-- 8th of 7, Oct 24 2010 Baking... Video to follow... Evolution and Ghostbusters.-- nineteenthly, Oct 24 2010 1.The lightest
2.Squeaky voice
3.Lightest metal
4.X-ray windows
5.Glass toughener
6.Coal or diamond
7.Most of the air
8.You breathe it
9.Toothpaste and tapwater
10.Pink lights
11.Street lamps
12.White flares
13.Foil
14.Computer chips
15.Morning star matches
16.Eggy stink
17. Swimming pools
18.Double-glazing
19.Bananas
20.Bones and teeth
21.Aircraft, bikes and bats – scandium
22. In white paint.
23.In sea squirt blood
24.Ooh, shiny! Used with dyes
25.Pink and in sad tears
26.Everything may become it and then there will be no more rust
27.Bright blue salts
28.Lots of allergies in jewellery
29.Spend a penny
30.Imagine a world without it
31.Melts in your hand
32.Transparent to infrared
33.Famous poison
34.Ghostbusters and Evolution
35.In the tea?
36.Superman's nemesis
37.The laziest element – rubidium
38.Ninety dogs
39.Spelling mistake
40.Creationist's nightmare
41.Superconducting magnet – niobium
42.Life, The Universe and Everything
43.Made in a lab -technetium
44.Alchemy that works – ruthenium
45.The most noble metal of them all – rhodium
46.Is it a theatre? - palladium
47.Cross my palm – silver
48.Toxic red – cadmium
49.Crystal clear – indium
50.Can cry when it bends – tin
51.Puke party – antimony
52.Halitosis – tellurium
53.Narrow neck – iodine
54.Best anaesthetic – xenon
55.Blows up bathtubs – caesium
56.Swallow this – barium
57.The hidden metal – lanthanum
58.Lighter flint – cerium
59.Light stopper – praseodymium
60.The strongest magnet – neodymium
61.He brought us fire – promethium
62.Strat magnet – samarium
63.On the Euro
64.Spock's brain
65.Shrinks from magnets – terbium
66.hard to get – dysprosium
67.Sherlock
68.Cameras and sunglasses – erbium
69.Ultima – thulium
70.From Ytterby
71.Roman Paris – lutetium
72.Not holmium
73.They mine it in the Congo – tantalum
74.And Hart – wolfram/tungsten
75.The newest transitional – rhenium
76.Second-best paperweight – osmium
77.Best paperweight – iridium
78.Blondie's best – platinum
79.To airy thinness beat – gold
80.Liquid planet paper – mercury
81.The young poisoner
82.Not in pencils
83.Shrinks when it melts – bismuth
84.Spy killer
85.Licence to kill - polonium
86.Cornish gas
87.Explosive and radioactive – francium
88.Shining time – radium
89.Contains “tin” - actinium
90.Thunder god's mantle – thorium
91.Lost in confusion – protactinium
92.Depleted?
93.Deep blue and cold – neptunium
94.Nuclear reactor
95.Like a house on fire – americium
96.It won't do this – curium
97.Thirty murderers - berkelium
98.Precious – californium
99.Relatively rare – einsteinium
100.Weighs a ton – fermium
101.Triple hooray – mendeleevium
102.Sounds like gold
103.The last actinide
104.The first transactinide
105.Is it what it seems? - dubnium
106.One of six underwater – seaborgium
107.Not very interesting – bohrium
108.Magic magic – hassium
109.Meitnerium - ?
110.Darmstadtium - ?
111.Three ones – roentgenium
112.Orange metal underwear – copernicium
113.One unlucky for some – ununtrium
114.Metal gas
115.Island constable
116.It ain't no witch
117.Blink and it's gone
118.The noble liquid?-- nineteenthly, Oct 25 2010 Excellent work, [19thly].(but I can't help but think "73.They mine it in the Congo" is actually "Um-Bongonium".-- Jinbish, Oct 25 2010 Me too. Some of them are a bit lame at the moment, particularly the rare earths, and others are not particularly bingo-y.-- nineteenthly, Oct 25 2010 I've got some rare earths at home (well, rare earth oxides actually - praesodymium, etc.)-- hippo, Oct 25 2010 oh-oh Love it!!!! +-- xandram, Oct 25 2010 You mean in quantity, [hippo]? As opposed to in TV sets, magnets or whatever?
Incidentally, this is now Baked. I did it this afternoon, it went down a storm and [eleventeenthly] video'd it.-- nineteenthly, Oct 25 2010 There may be a sixty-six that is radioactive. Arsenic for example.-- nineteenthly, Oct 25 2010 /Eggy stink //
Hey!-- egbert, Oct 25 2010 Sorry, has to appeal to the teenage and younger mind.-- nineteenthly, Oct 25 2010 It would be neat if the balls were made out of their respective elements. Gases, liquids and radioactives would be a problem, though. I can see having a plastic shell of some kind containing Mercury, Radon and the like.-- DrWorm, Oct 25 2010 I just used little squares of paper in a plastic bag, but you can get those periodic tables with the little phials of elements in them. Maybe something like that.-- nineteenthly, Oct 25 2010 Wouldn't everyone have the same card - a periodic table? Every game would end in a tie involving everyone paying attention.-- bungston, Oct 25 2010 I used four cards: hydrogen/alkali metals/alkali earths; transition metals; p-block elements plus helium; rare earths and actinides. The main problem was that they were different sizes, but it turned out the alkali bit, which i think were the smallest selection, took a long time to fill up because it was the smallest, i presume because they aren't as likely to come up, so it sort of balances out. There could be a side exercise about probability, come to think of it.-- nineteenthly, Oct 25 2010 // everyone have the same card //
No. Cards could be printed with 50 elements randomly highlighted. That gives plenty of permutations. All players get a different card. Then it's "luck of the draw", plus a quick memory for atomic numbers.-- 8th of 7, Oct 25 2010 [19thly] Yes, not loads, but a jarful.-- hippo, Oct 25 2010 Wow! So, a small lump of each? Stamped with names or marked in some way? They must all be hard to distinguish, mustn't they? Incidentally, they and the transactinides were the hardest to find nicknames for.-- nineteenthly, Oct 25 2010 No they're powders - my wife uses them to make glazes for her ceramics business.-- hippo, Oct 26 2010 Oh, right. Interesting source of chemicals i haven't previously considered (for the home ed stuff). Thanks.-- nineteenthly, Oct 26 2010 See link.-- nineteenthly, Oct 27 2010 How was it [nineteenthly]? Enjoyable or torturous?-- xenzag, Oct 27 2010 This has to be the best idea I've seen, surrounding the periodic table. The only atomic weight I can remember is that of Barium... 137.84-- infidel, Oct 27 2010 I found it enjoyable but began to think they were getting bored. The pair with the alkali metals and alkali earths were initially frustrated because they had the fewest elements and the probability of them getting one early was lowest, but that also meant their card filled up more quickly. It turned out none of them got bored and they all really enjoyed it. One thing you don't see on that video is that when i initially announced we were doing something on the periodic table they all groaned, but their enthusiasm increased as the game went on.-- nineteenthly, Oct 27 2010 You are to be complimented on the time and trouble taken in order to make this a rewarding educational venture for young people.-- xenzag, Oct 28 2010 Thanks, but it's a pleasure actually. I was concerned that you might feel i'd stolen your idea.-- nineteenthly, Oct 28 2010 <heavy irony>
What, plagiarism in the HalfBakery ? Perish the thought ...
</heavy irony>-- 8th of 7, Oct 28 2010 This place is partly an anemometer. It's like Charles Fort's "steam engine time".-- nineteenthly, Oct 28 2010 // anemometer //
Does it measure wind, or just "hot air" ... ?-- 8th of 7, Oct 28 2010 snappy comeback not found.-- nineteenthly, Oct 29 2010 Thanks for the link, [pertinax]. Quite close to what i imagined as it happens.-- nineteenthly, Oct 30 2010 My pleasure, [19thly]. Actually, I should declare an interest; it was invented by a family friend.-- pertinax, Oct 31 2010 Oh, that's brilliant. How successful is it?-- nineteenthly, Oct 31 2010 Bump. Sorry about this: makes it easier for someone to find.-- nineteenthly, Feb 07 2012 random, halfbakery