Explosive fun for students with THE POWDER TOY a great science game

My kids have been playing this game for months at school and I really only sat down to have a good look at it this week and found to my surprise that THE POWDER TOY was both a fun game and great educational opportunity for students to learn about chemical reactions.

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Kids love to blow things up which is essentially what Powder is all about but it goes a great deal deeper  than simply allowing students the opportunity to play around with many "powdery" pixels of diverse natures, each having different simulated physical and chemical properties.

Some fall faster than others, a few are "solid" and hang in mid-air, etc. A good number of them are flammable, so all you high-school chemistry students who just want to see things blow up should get hooked on this game pretty easily. = ) Almost every substance has a special quality when thrown together with another: for example, water solidifies magma; thunder electrifies metal; torch burns what hits it but is dissolved by water; and the infamous virus eats through and overruns all others, eventually turning back into the first material it came in contact with. Searching for all the unique reactions is part of the entertainment.

As you can see there is plenty here for your casual gamer to hard core science geek to get something from POWDER.  I would recommend it to boys especially looking for something a little different. Here is the latest version of the POWDER TOY to Download.

Update on Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 2:02PM by Kevin Cummins

We would love to hear of any other games just like powdertoy that are great fun and also educational.  Please post them below if you aware of any.

Comments

[blah]

how can you register there ????!!!

[t3h1337n00b]

I think you're confusing Powder Toy with Powder Game. Powder Toy doesn't have virus or torch. Powder Game does.

[Fostalostalis]

You are able to download the newest version at http://powdertoy.co.uk/

[dylan]

lol cool

[jr]

how do you unzip the file

[god]

This is so awesome!!!

[moonman196]

where can you go to learn how to use powder toy properly to use all the more fancy stuff

[scooter]

this is mad. i love it! lol jk, i cant even work this crap

[jake]

ass

[isiaha]

holy crap this is awesome

[pierce251010]

where and how do i get powder toy legacy

[ohaiguy]

awesome