Globalroamink’s Weblog

In a previous post I wrote about Oprah Winfrey’s plan to get more American kids interested in the world beyond U.S. borders. Her newest organization – O Ambassadors – encourages teens to get involved in volunteer mission work in developing countries.

Now I’ve spent a bit more time tooling around on her new site. I’ve discovered a fun online game that’s a part of the site.

The game is called the Millennium Challenge.

It’s like a board game except it’s on your computer screen. Your character clicks the spinner, moves the number of spaces the spinner says, and then you draw a card from the stack to see what it says.

Some of the cards are simply trivia about other lands. Other cards give you a task to complete that will help you learn something unique about another place.

But you can’t just willy nilly complete the cards. If you don’t finish your job in the given time, or if you didn’t read the directions and do it wrong, your character will be punished and you’ll have to move backwards.

It’s pretty fun. I recommend you give it a go and hop on over. But player beware.

The game does play a song that gets pretty annoying after a while. I was muting before I knew it.