JITTYMON

Card Battle Game / Internet Safety Factfile

At the Jitty we’re always looking at different ways to pass internet safety tips to you that we know will work and are worth using. The difference between us and many sites is that we know why these things work, and we’ll explain this so you don’t feel you’re being preached to. With this in mind, we’ve designed a useful fact file to help you to avoid problems on the internet that has a card game on the flip side. Hopefully you’ll find both sides just as useful!

Jittymon was created by the joint efforts of users from the Jitty. Wrigle was responsible for the rules and overall concept, Rebeldiamond created all of the character artwork, and various other users pitched in with ideas along the way. The more observant among you may notice that all of the characters on the cards exist in real life, and are all members of the chat forum.

The Jittymon card game works in a similar way to Top Trumps, and the rules are as follows:

1. Deal the cards out equally among the players. Players can only look at their top card, and must not show this to the other players

2. The first player reads out the name of their top card, and a statistic from that card

3. The other players take turns to read out the same statistic from their top card

4. The player with the highest number wins the cards from that round, and puts them on the bottom of their deck

5. The winner of the round starts the next round

6. The person who ends up with all the cards wins the game

You can also play Jittymon using an alternative rule, just to keep you on your toes. You’ll notice that the Jittymon cards are split up into light and dark versions, each with their own stats. You usually win a round by picking the highest statistic and beating everyone else. If a dark card starts the round, you can try to choose the lowest statistic instead, turning the game on its head. You’ll have to pay more attention to which card is being played though...

If you would like some of these cards for your school or youth group, you’d like us to come along to talk through the sort of internet safety tips that we think are actually going to be useful to you, or you’d just like more information about the Jittymon project then simply send an email to crlewis@leics.gov.uk and we’ll be in touch as soon as possible.