UnNatural Selection is a clever, fun family game that can be used to improve vocabulary, general knowledge and creative thinking. The game requires three or more players who can play well cooperatively to make this game enjoyable and successful. One player begins as judge and deals all other players three cards. Each player chooses a creature card (shark, Ghengis Khan, T-Rex, e-coli, etc.) that he believes is most likely to win in a battle. Once the anonymous selections are made, the judge turns the cards over and each player must add the adjectives on the remaining two cards (tired, angry, clumsy, etc.) to either enhance or disarm the creatures. The judge decides which modified creature would most likely win if they engaged in battle. That player wins the round. The player who is judge rotates around the circle. The game includes 170 cards, so play can continue as long as desired without being repetitious. Students have the opportunity to be creative, learn new adjectives, animals and historical figures (provided a knowledgeable person plays to provide explanations), and, as judge, speak to a captive audience to explain decisions. UnNatural Selection is a great activity that can provide wonderful teaching opportunities when played with the right group.

• Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
• Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
• Presents educational concepts accurately
• Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
• Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
• Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
• Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Adults would enjoy playing with a child
• For electronic games, gives positive or encouraging feedback
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Does not require excessive set-up time after first time use
• Can be fun as a single player game
• Multi-player game which fosters collaboration or cooperation
• Well-made for the cost
• For electronic games, can play without sound
• For electronic games, allows user to save work
• For electronic games, voice/sounds are appealing and pronounces words properly
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use

• Reading Basics
• Directions may be confusing for students using independently
• Self-regulation
• Multi-player activity that requires cooperation or has potential for disagreements
• Themes that might disturb sensitive students (death, blood, slime)
• Multi-player activity with a clear 'winner' and 'loser'
• Social Awareness
• Multi-player activity that requires cooperation or has potential for disagreements
• Themes that might disturb sensitive students (death, blood, slime)
• Multi-player activity with a clear 'winner' and 'loser'

Choose your best Creature to duke it out with opponents in the arena. Use your mod Ray X5000 to alter Creature features during the battle to give yours a fighting edge! Of course, your Mod Ray is an older model and, well, the results can be a bit umm, unusual... UnNatural Selection is a fast card game of battling wacky creatures with players using their cards to alter the abilities of the combatants in amusing ways. Whoever's creatures win the most challenges becomes the ultimate warrior!!