Eleusis

This is a card game played by 4-6 people. Each person will be given 5 cards. One person shall be assigned/selected to be God/Mother Nature and she/he will silently formulate a rule. God/Mother Nature lays the first card. the others try to guess what the rule is by laying down a card that would follow the rule. God/Mother Nature then says whether the card is correct or wrong. If correct, you lay the card in line. If wrong, you lay the card aside and get 4 extra cards from the pile. If you don't have the appropriate card for the rule, you must get a card from the pile. The aim of the game is to get rid of all your cards. If you want to be a prophet, express your intention after you lay your card (when your turn comes up). The prophet is pressumed to knwo the rule of God/Mother Nature and therefore tells the others whether the card they put down is correct or wrong. If the prophet evaluates the cards of the others correctly, the prophet wins. If the prophet evaluates erroneously, she/he will be considered a false prophet and will be given 10 extra cards. This is a good game for teaching how to make hypotheses and test theories.