The first game I played was called “2016 National Drug & Alcohol IQ Challenge” and this game was basically a quiz about commonly abused substances, such as alcohol, marijuana, and MDMA. A strength of this game was that it was definitely educational, even I learned something from playing. A weakness of this game was that I think there was an answer that could have potentially two answers. In my Drug Use and Abuse class we learned about SSDS (Sudden Sniffing Death Syndrome) which is sudden cardiac arrest resulting from huffing a substance. I chose “dangerously decreased heart rate” and the correct answer for a question relating to the dangers of huffing substances. This choice, according to the quiz, was incorrect. Since this quiz came out in 2016, and E-cigs were not the huge problem they are now an Opportunity for this quiz would be that they are able to incorporate this new epidemic into the new 2018 or 2019 quiz. A threat to this quiz would be that there is a lot of competition when it comes to drug IQ quizzes. With a quick google search I was able to find 29,100,000 results in about 0.84 seconds.
The second game that I played was called “Jimmy’s Thirsty“. This was a true/false questions type quiz and all of the questions pertained to water and how the accurate hydration levels change throughout a lifetime. Overall I thought this game was pretty much common sense, however, I highly doubt that college educated individuals were the target audience for this quiz. Most likely it is targeted to grade school students.
Emily 