Tacklebox™ - An educational fishing experience
Life Skills can be gained through creative game play!

1. Tacklebox™ is designed with the following features:

• To bring the experience of fishing into a game environment
• To develop individual and team based life skills
• To go beyond a standard board game concept where repetitive circling around a game board is avoided. In Tacklebox™ players actions within the game are choice orientated
• Strategy formation
• Tactical planning
• Random element of luck
• The ability to manage risk of your equipment due to environmental surprises
• Multiple game variances that are decided on before the game starts, each option requires differing game strategies and tactics:
  1. Three types of game finishes:
     1. Fish Quota System - short or long play game option
     2. Targeted Fish Types - Medium to long play option
     3. Empty the Sea of Fish - long play game option
  2. Discard Pile and Sea of Fish play options which changes the game dynamic completely and requires differing strategies and tactics for each option:
     1. Retain card positions in the Sea of Fish and shuffle the Discard Pile only
     2. Pick up all cards in the Sea of Fish and shuffle with the Discard Pile

2. Educational learning components:

• NZ Fish types and their local names.
• Colour coding and patterns linking
• Development of combinations
  1. Numerical - line, hook sizes
  2. Equipment components - rod, line, hook
  3. Matrix relationships between equipment, bait and fish types
• Metacognitive thinking
  1. Tactical planning - game play choices
  2. Strategy formation - what fish groups versus bait combinations
  3. Linking knowledge - applying tactics and strategies
  4. Decision making - developing an action plan
• Risk management
  1. Taking risks and learning about consequences - fishing strategy versus surprise cards
  2. Making choices and decisions on the equipment chosen, bait used and amount played to achieve the best outcomes for your strategies and tactics.
• Tactile experience - good amount of hand/eye coordination needed
• Interactive:
  1. Team Co-operative option
  2. Competitive play option
• Negotiation skills - Trading Time
• Practicing place values - numeric skills adding up your score as you play
• Experiential knowledge - apply already learnt knowledge of fishing
• Developing memory skills - card placement