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5 Starts

Five starts is played with a standard deck of cards with the face cards removed, depicting the numbers from 1 to 10. The game is well suited for parties of mixed ages. Rules Lay out all of the 5’s from the deck face up in one column. Players receive seven cards and the remainder become […]

I see 10!

This is a game that supports addition to 10.   Rules   Using a standard deck of cards, remove all face cards.  Aces will be used as 1’s.  On a table, arrange 12 cards face up.  Take turns finding a pair of cards that add to be 10.  The 10’s can be removed individually.  Variations Rather […]

Circular NIM

A two-person strategy game/Un juego de estratégias de dos personas Materials/Materiales One game board/Un tablero 13 markers/13 piezas DIRECTIONS/INSTRUCCIONES Place one marker in each circle. Coloque una pieza en cada círculo. Players take turns removing one or two markers. If you take two markers, they must be from adjacent circles. Los jugadores toman turnos quitan […]

Mill/Nine Men’s Morris

Nine men’s morris is a strategy board game for two players dating at least to the Roman Empire. The game is also known as nine-man morris, mill, mills, the mill game, merels, merrills, merelles, marelles, morelles, and ninepenny marl in English. The game has also been called cowboy checkers and is sometimes printed on the […]

Pyramid Solitaire

Pyramid is a solitaire game where the object is to get all the cards from the pyramid to the foundation. Rules The object of the game is to remove pairs of cards that add up to the total of the highest card in the deck from a pyramid arrangement of 28 cards. When using the […]

Equilateral Triangle Puzzle

At the start of the school year, I came across this tweet by @MathEqualsLove… This Week’s Puzzle: Equilateral Triangle. This puzzle is always a favorite! https://t.co/tPyH2w2spF #mtbos #iteachmath #teach180 #puzzlingclassroom pic.twitter.com/8Se6RJJepj — Sarah Carter (@mathequalslove) August 26, 2019 I loved the Equilateral Puzzle, so I finally got around to sharing it with teachers during a […]

Dice Tic-Tac-Sum

You’ll need a pen, piece of paper, and nine number cubes. Draw a tic-tac-toe board, and arrange the number cubes so that there is one cube per spot.  Change the face of the cube so that for every possible three-in-a-row (like Tic-Tac-Toe) the dice all sum to the same quantity. Of course, all dice being […]

SET

Set (stylized as SET) is a real-time card game designed by Marsha Falco in 1974 and published by Set Enterprises in 1991. The deck consists of 81 unique cards that vary in four features across three possibilities for each kind of feature: number of shapes (one, two, or three), shape (diamond, squiggle, oval), shading (solid, […]