Power haus (English version) – Adventerra Games

Power haus (English version) – Adventerra Games

Power haus (English version) is one of the four educational board games produced by the Swiss-Italian company Adventerra Games. All four board games are focused on environmental themes and a desire to inspire families to respect nature and safeguard our planet.

This board game revolves around an old house to renovate you and your friends have decided to buy and live in. You learn very quickly that the house leaks heat and wastes a lot of energy, which is damaging to the planet as well is very costly to upkeep.

​With a limited budget, will you figure out how to make the house as energy efficient as possible by changing your daily habits and investing in carefully selected products and services?

The objective of power haus: the game board shows a small neighbourhood with your shared house and a few other buildings: the local do it yourself hardware store, the appliance store, a small construction firm for larger projects, and the local office of energy savings with consultants to help you find the best ways to save energy. You and the other players will move between these buildings during your turns to find and buy the most efficient products and services to reduce your energy consumption and bills.

Placed on top of the various rooms within the house and within several of the buildings are cards describing behaviours that the players can adopt to conserve energy (also in real life!).

There are three types of cards:
Green cards: correct behaviours that save energy;
Red cards: incorrect behaviours that waste energy;
Yellow cards: products and services that the players can install in their house to make it more energy efficient.

Educational aspects:

The game sets two main objectives:

– Help the players and their families to correct their energy-wasting habits at home.
– To learn about the main sources of renewable energy and the new technologies that can help them make houses more energy efficient.

By achieving these objectives during the game, the players learn how to save energy in their real homes to pollute less, emit less carbon dioxide and save money for their families.

The rules of the game are easy to understand, but the challenge is to understand which investments in services will lead to the greatest energy savings.
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Players learn about proper and improper use of energy, the economic and ecological effects of energy savings, the main sources of renewable energy, new technologies which help to make houses very energy efficient, how to calculate the relative advantage of different investments to make best use of your limited capital available

Power haus is also available in French.

This material is suitable for children aged 7 years and up.

Contents:

1 game board
67 cards
Play money
4 movements pieces
4 marker discs
3 dice
User manual