Games

Answer to Yesterday’s Guess That Estimation:

Each year about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 snow crystals drop from the sky. How would you say that number in words?

Multiplication Zone

This is a game for two to four players.

The object of the game: Be the first player to get rid of all of your cards.

Materials:

Deck of cards, Ace worth 11, Jack worth 12, Queen worth 13,
King worth 14

How to Play:

  • Each player is dealt 10 cards.
  • A card from the remaining stack is flipped face-up.
Three decks of cards, with the centre deck showing a six of clubs.

Left: Player One, Centre: Remaining Stack, Right: Player Two

  • Its value is multiplied by 10
  • Players look at their cards and try to find a pair of cards whose product is in that “decade”.
Three decks of cards. The first, on the left, is showing a seven of diamonds and a nine of hearts. The middle deck, is showing a six of clubs. The deck on the right is showing a Jack of hearts and a five of diamonds.

Player 1: 63, Player 2: 60, Remaining Stack Zone: 60 – 69

For example: If the flipped card is a six, then the zone is any number in the sixties (60 – 69), so a winning pair would be 9 and 7 (product 63) or 12 and 5 (product 60), etc.

  • Any player who can make a pair removes those cards from their hand.
  • Flip over the next card from the “Remaining Stack” to determine the next zone.
  • Play continues until one player’s hand is empty

Source: Acing Math