An excerpt from Oregon Lives’s article covering Emily and how she invented this fun new game
“On her 12th birthday this year, Emily Ehlers, a seventh-grader at West Sylvan Middle School, received a mysterious package from Massachusetts.
“I had a small suspicion that it was my game, so I opened it.” She beams, the delight of the moment still evident.
Inside the package was a game, Mermaid Beach. She had dreamed up the ocean-themed card game when she was in third grade. Four years later there it was, professionally produced and packaged by Gamewright, maker of popular family games like Slamwich, Rat-a-Tat Cat and Sleeping Queens. She was officially a game inventor.”“Emily and her family spent her third-grade year sailing a boat down the East Coast of the United States and on to the Bahamas. She and her brothers, Jake and Drew, were home-schooled for the year. They spent time playing games, including Sleeping Queens, Emily’s favorite. “When I found out it was invented by a girl, I wanted to do that too,” she says.”
- Lisa ‘Bowman’ Steenson – Gut Bustin’ Games: Redneck Life, Trailer Park Wars, and Oh Gnome You Don’t!
- Carey Grayson – Gryphon Games: Bridgetown Races
- Jim Froese – Jimbo Enterprises: Hospital
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