The Hive Council
Lead your colony through 4 crises. Every choice has tradeoffs.
Balance three vital resources to keep the hive alive!
Each starts at 50/100. Your decisions push them up or down. No single "right" answer — every choice is a tradeoff!
About The Hive Council
Real colonies face real crises — mite infestations, pesticide exposure, a failing queen, a harsh winter — and real beekeepers make tradeoffs to manage them, the same way a town council balances a budget. The Hive Council puts you in charge through a branching scenario game: each crisis presents choices with genuine costs, modeled on actual colony management and public-health tradeoffs.
It doubles as a civics exercise — budgeting, voting, weighing short-term relief against long-term colony health — dressed up as bee biology.
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The economics behind the resource-management decisions the council has to make.
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