About this game

The market bell rings and the bazaar comes alive. Each round a new merchant throws open their stall with six words for sale, and behind every word sits a hidden treasure. A gold piece, a diamond, maybe the Genie's Lamp itself. Buy your words, weave every one of them into a single perfect sentence, and watch the reveals stack up while the class holds its breath. But some days a thief is working the market!

How to play

1. 1Divide the class into teams and give each team a mini-whiteboard.
2. 2Every team starts the game with 1 gold.
3. 3Teams take turns buying one word at a time.
4. 4Every time a word is bought it's value increases by 1 gold.
5. 5Teams continue buying words in order, stopping any time they wish.
6. 6Every team then writes a single sentence containing every word they bought.
7. 7The teacher checks each teams sentence.
8. 8A correct sentence earns the treasures behind each of that team's words. Gold = 1 gold, Diamond = 3 gold and Genie's Lamp = 5 gold.
9. 9An incorrect sentence loses all gold spent that round and no treasure is earned.
10. 10On some days a thief is hiding behind one of the words, and every team who bought that word loses all their treasure for the round.
11. 11At the end the richest team in the bazaar wins!