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Castles: Defence and Attack!<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A game of strategy: Spend your budget on your choice of features, then read a story of how your castle fares when faced with attack! Complete with a worksheet and extension activities. There’s even a live ‘leaderboard’ to check the progress of your students!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This game has now been updated with a new ‘save progress’ feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Castles: Defence and Attack!\u00a0 A game of strategy: Spend your budget on your choice of features, then read a story of how your castle fares when faced with attack! Complete with a worksheet and extension activities. There’s even a live ‘leaderboard’ to check the progress of your students! This game has now been updated with… <\/p>\n

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