You don't have to be a genius to understand
the work of the Nobel Laureates. These educational games and animated interactives, based on Nobel Prize-awarded achievements, will teach and inspire you while you're having fun!
Blood Typing
What happens if you get a blood transfusion with the wrong blood type? Try to save some patients' lives and learn about human blood types!
Split Brain Experiments
The brain is made up of two halves, or hemispheres. The right and left hemisphere in the brain are good at different things. In this game you perform the classic split brain experiment used by Nobel Laureate Roger Sperry when he discovered differences between the right and left hemispheres of the brain.
Pavlov's Dog
In this game you can train a dog to drool on command! It's all about conditioned learning.
DNA - the Double Helix
What's happening in your body right now? Your genetic material is duplicated frequently. Find out how in this game.
Control of the Cell Cycle
The cell cycle is the series of events that take place as the cells grow and divide. Are you familiar with the different phases in the cycle?
Trade
Find out about international trade according to the Heckscher-Ohlin theory and try your luck as ruler in the Trade Ruler Game!
Immune Responses
The Immune Responses production is based on several Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine awarded for discoveries related to immune responses, from the first Nobel Prize in 1901 until 2010.
The PCR Method - a DNA Copying Machine
How does forensic science enable DNA to be extracted from tiny samples on a cigarette butt? Find out in this game about the PCR method.
Electrocardiogram - ECG
ECG is used for diagnosing heart conditions by recording the small electric waves generated during heart activity.
The Cell and its Organelles
An ultracentrifuge is used for separating the organelles in the cell according to their size, shape and density. Join the 'cell students' at the Super Cell Academy and see if you can pass the school's exams!
Nerve Signaling
The Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine have rewarded several achievements that helped to reveal the mysterious complexities of the nervous system.
MLA style: "Educational Games". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 23 Apr 2019. <http://educationalgames.nobelprize.org/educational/>
About the educational games
The educational games are based on Nobel Prize awarded discoveries and were produced between 2001 and 2012. The games have not been updated since production (including potential scientific facts changes) and are provided here on an 'as is' basis by popular demand.
The games require Adobe Flash Player. Adobe Flash is an old technology with an end of life by 2020 and these games will then no longer work. Flash is disabled in many browsers and need to be activated in order to play the games.