StarPower
multiplayer educational game
StarPower is an educational game for 12 to 35 players, designed by R. Garry Shirts for Simulation Training Systems in 1969.
The game combines chance and skill at trading to establish a score. Players are assigned categories based upon their relative scores, with the highest scoring category being able to change the rules. The game is designed to illustrate the behavior of human beings in a system that naturally stratifies them economically or politically.
Play
Players randomly draw lots of colored chips. These chips have different number value based on their color. Players are given the opportunity to trade these chips to increase their point total. Players are told to not share information
about their chips. While players
are told that the group assignment is based on "achievement"
or "merit", the initial
distribution dominates the resulting scores.
Each round, players draw random colored chips and trade them for
sets of points.
“StarPower” enters the record as multiplayer educational game. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what StarPower, multiplayer and educational can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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