  One of the highlights of 2012 in physics is related to two papers, published
by the ATLAS and the CMS Collaborations, that announced the discovery of at
least one new particle in pp collisions at CERN LHC. At least one of the
properties of this new particle is found to be similar to that of the Higgs
boson, the last and most difficult to find building block from the Standard
Model of particle physics. Physics teachers are frequently approached by their
media-educated students, who inquire about the properties of the Higgs boson,
but physics teachers are rarely trained to teach this elusive aspect of
particle physics in elementary, middle or junior high schools. In this paper I
describe a card-game, that can be considered as a hands-on and easily
accessible tool that allows interested teachers, students and also motivated
lay-persons to play with the properties of the newly found Higgs-like particle.
This new particle was detected through its decays to directly observable, final
state particles. Many of these final state particles are represented in a deck
of cards, that represent elementary particles, originally invented to
popularize the physics of quark matter in the so-called Quark Matter Card
Games. The Higgs decay properties can be utilized, playfully, in a Higgs boson
search card game. The rules of this game illustrate also the need for some
luck, to complement knowledge and memory, useful skills that this game also
helps to develop. The paper is organized as a handout or booklet, that directly
describes how to play the Higgs boson on Your Own card game.
