The card game consists of a blue box decorated with cartoonish designs including the spacecraft with punching mitts. Inside there are yellow prompt cards and brown answer cards with a title and funny description. Answer cards also have rankings for their effectiveness and chaos factor. There is also a rulebook which describes the contents and additional rules to add chaos to the game.
The card game consists of a blue box decorated with cartoonish designs including the spacecraft with punching mitts. Inside there are yellow prompt cards and brown answer cards with a title and funny description. Answer cards also have rankings for their effectiveness and chaos factor. There is also a rulebook which describes the contents and additional rules to add chaos to the game.
The card game consists of a blue box decorated with cartoonish designs including the spacecraft with punching mitts. Inside there are yellow prompt cards and brown answer cards with a title and funny description. Answer cards also have rankings for their effectiveness and chaos factor. There is also a rulebook which describes the contents and additional rules to add chaos to the game.
The card game consists of a blue box decorated with cartoonish designs including the spacecraft with punching mitts. Inside there are yellow prompt cards and brown answer cards with a title and funny description. Answer cards also have rankings for their effectiveness and chaos factor. There is also a rulebook which describes the contents and additional rules to add chaos to the game.
The card game consists of a blue box decorated with cartoonish designs including the spacecraft with punching mitts. Inside there are yellow prompt cards and brown answer cards with a title and funny description. Answer cards also have rankings for their effectiveness and chaos factor. There is also a rulebook which describes the contents and additional rules to add chaos to the game.
The card game consists of a blue box decorated with cartoonish designs including the spacecraft with punching mitts. Inside there are yellow prompt cards and brown answer cards with a title and funny description. Answer cards also have rankings for their effectiveness and chaos factor. There is also a rulebook which describes the contents and additional rules to add chaos to the game.
The card game consists of a blue box decorated with cartoonish designs including the spacecraft with punching mitts. Inside there are yellow prompt cards and brown answer cards with a title and funny description. Answer cards also have rankings for their effectiveness and chaos factor. There is also a rulebook which describes the contents and additional rules to add chaos to the game.

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Psyche Against the Universe

Nidhi Shah

June 12th, 2025

Major: Mechanical Engineering

Genre/Medium: Created digitally using Canva; printed using Launch Tabletop

About the work:

“Psyche Against the Universe” is a 3-5 player card game inspired by Apples to Apples. The game takes place over the six-year journey of the Psyche spacecraft as it travels through space to its asteroid target. In this fictional version of the mission, Psyche encounters bizarre situations, from alien encounters to absurd instrument malfunctions. Players use answer cards—ranging from unconventional uses of Psyche’s instruments to wild sci-fi concepts—to solve these ridiculous problems. Each round, a judge picks a prompt card and players respond with their best (or funniest) solution. With players pitching their absurd fixes, every round spirals into a chaotic and hilarious problem-solving session. This game is especially designed for the engineers and scientists who made the Psyche mission possible, offering them a chance to have fun while redefining their work in ridiculous ways. The artwork for the cards, as well as the box and rules, was completed using Canva and compiled within Launch Tabletop for printing. The goal of this project is to imagine exciting adventures Psyche might be having as we anticipate the spacecraft reaching the asteroid.

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Psyche Inspired is a program that brings undergraduate students from any discipline or major together to share the excitement, innovation, and scientific and engineering content of NASA’s Psyche mission with the public in new ways through artistic and creative works. This year’s Psyche Inspired cohort is known as the Iridium Class. These works are posted in the gallery and highlighted on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. View the full resolution images in the image gallery. There are many ways to get involved with NASA’s Psyche mission. Learn how you can be a part of the Psyche mission through our “Get Involved” pages at https://psyche.ssl.berkeley.edu/get-involved/ and https://science.nasa.gov/mission/psyche/ways-to-participate/. To learn more about the overall Psyche mission, visit nasa.gov/psyche or jpl.nasa.gov/missions/psyche.

Date Added: 06-12-2025
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Nidhi Shah - Psyche Inspired

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