This game actively promotes:
- Active learning strategies,
- Essential transferable skills development strategies,
- Professions awareness and development processes,
- Family and relationship value,
- Financial literacy and knowledge,
- Entrepreneurship mindset development
About the game
Legacy Race is a career game for two to four players where the goal is to acquire the largest
wealth. Play involves acquiring knowledge, choosing professions, solving problems,
and earning money.
It is a game for young people and working-class adults through which they are
practically engaged in activities and conversations that revolved around making
career choices and what makes a profession lucrative for the professionals. The
game shows how knowledge and skills impact people’s earnings in spite of their
professions.
Through Legacy Race: players get to understand the essence of knowledge acquisition
and skills development early in life, and how they impact and affect people’s lives
in adulthood; they get to learn how much money can be legally acquired based on
individual professions and knowledge, and why some professionals in certain
professions earn more money than others in the same profession; they better
understand the risks, and benefits of entrepreneurship, the value of investment
and assets, health insurance, houses, and family in old age, and lots more…
It is a game that helps young people:
- Understand why school matters,
- Understand why and how to prepare for their old age,
- Understand what they need to make it in life,
- Understand their need of knowledge and skills,
- Understand the essence of family beyond the fun of it,
- Understand why so many working people are still poor,
- Understand how to start building their career and profession,
- Understand how to grow their career as an in-service professional,
- Understand how few survive and live despite their failure at school, and
- Understand how to start their entrepreneurship journey.
Legacy Race is a game that addresses a concern on how to guide children to having
a productive career, a better view of education, knowledge acquisition, skills
development, family relationship, and value of things early in life.
What Players Gain
- Career Awareness and Exploration: Players learn about various industries
and professions and what makes them lucrative.
- Financial Literacy: Players manage resources and make financial decisions
that relate to investment and assets.
- Decision-Making Skills: Players develop a sense for the development of
problem-solving skills and critical thinking about value of things including
health insurance, houses, etc.
- Networking: Players learn the importance of building working effective
professional and family relationships.
- Priority Setting: Players learn to set priorities around and for things that
have lasting values.
- Education and Schooling Insight: Players develop a sense of need for
skill-building and knowledge acquisition, possessing better understanding
about schooling and why it matters.
- Entrepreneurial Mindset: Players learn the risks and benefits of entrepreneurship.
- And lots more…
CONTENTS
- A Playing board
- 2 three-figured dice
- 4 coloured player pieces
- 80 knowledge cards (20 cards of 500k, 200k, 100k, and 50k)
- 84 profession and price tag cards for 21 professions (4 per each)
- 80 property cards (8 for each 10 items)
- N248,000 in money (140 notes in all: 40 notes of N5000, 20 notes of N1000, 40 notes of N500, and 40 notes of N200)
- Rules sheet