🃏 Card Game · Science Commercialisation
Buy raw materials, combine exactly two matched inputs into a high-value science product, then choose: sell fast to the bank, or hold to the end for a bigger score. Learn how research becomes product without feeling like you are studying.
About the Game
Players take the role of a sciencepreneur: buying raw materials from the market, assembling two matched inputs into a futuristic science product — from cultured meat to health biosensors — then deciding when to sell and when to hold. This edition is deliberately tight: raw materials are never free, cash is scarce, and your hand is capped at seven cards.
Learning Through Play
Inspired by Ki Hajar Dewantara's Among system, these cards never lecture. There is no "wrong, try again" — only the natural consequence of each decision: if capital runs short, the product cannot be assembled; if a risk goes unhedged, the opportunity may be gone by the next turn.
At the same table, a teenager counts play money and laughs, while an adult argues — smiling — about market prices and loan multiples. Both are learning. Both feel like they are only playing.
Core Loop
Each raw material has exactly one fixed partner, and each pair yields exactly one product.
6 face-up cards in the middle
Raw materials are never free after the starting capital. Each turn you choose one: buy a raw material from the market, or draw an Action card. The market refills the moment something is bought.
Free — no extra cost
Collect exactly two matched raw materials, hand them in, take the product card. The product goes face down in front of you — opponents only know how many you hold, never which ones.
Two prices, two strategies
Every product carries two prices: the Bank Sale Price (instant cash, lower) and the Market Price (end-game score, higher). Selling early buys you room to move; holding buys you points.
Because starting capital is deliberately thin, the bank offers loans of 100, 200 or 300 at any time. But debt is recorded at 1.5× the principal — borrow 100, owe 150 — and the full amount is deducted from your final score. Debt cards stay face down, so opponents never know how deep you are in.
A Look at the Cards
Two matched raw materials, one finished product. Every card lists its buy price, sale price and partner.
80 spent on two raw materials becomes a product worth 180 at final scoring. This is just a glimpse of 20 raw materials and 10 products — the full set and rulebook come with purchase.
In the Box
| Component | Count | Back Colour | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raw Material cards | 40 | Green | 20 types, each with one fixed partner and one target product |
| Product cards | 20 | Gold | 10 types, each with a Market Price and a Bank Sale Price |
| Action cards | 37 | Navy | 16 types: Attack, Financial Audit, Information, Market, Collaboration, Protect, Utility |
| Money cards | 66 | Blue | 10 denominations, from 10 to 100 |
| Debt cards | 12 | Deep red | 3 bank loan sizes, recorded at 1.5× principal |
The back colour signals the card category, never its content — so an opponent's product and debt piles stay secret until final scoring.
The Package
20 types, from cultured muscle cells to cellulose enzymes. Each has exactly one partner.
10 futuristic science products: cultured meat, bioplastic packaging, health biosensors and more.
Ten denominations, from 10 to 100.
16 types: left/right attacks, financial audit, information, market swings, collaboration and utility.
Three bank loan sizes — 100, 200, 300 — each recorded at 1.5× principal.
A full 41-page guide, including the complete list of raw materials, products and action cards.
How It Plays
Each turn, choose one: buy a raw material from the Market, or draw one Action card.
Combine two matched raw materials into a product. Free, and stored face down at once.
Sell to the bank for instant cash, or hold to the end for the higher Market Price.
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The preview on this page is only a glimpse — the full card set and rulebook come with purchase.