Games

Answer to Yesterday’s Guess That Estimation:

The average person will eat 10,000 chocolate bars in a lifetime.

Strategy Number Battle

This is a game for two players or 2 teams.

The object of the game:

Collect the most amount of cards.

Materials: Deck of cards

Ace worth 11, Jack worth 12, Queen worth 13, King worth 14

How to Play:

  • Black cards are positive numbers; red cards are negative numbers.
  • Players split a deck of cards and simultaneously flip over their top four (or five) cards.
  • Players/Teams may do whatever math manipulation they wish with the numbers to create the largest result.
  • Players/Teams may move the cards and place in any position of the equation they wish.
  • Whichever player or team has the highest answer collects all of the cards displayed for that round
  • Continue to play until all cards have been used.
  • Each player/team counts the number of cards they collected. The player/team with the highest number of cards wins the game.

Player One (left):

(14 + -11) x (-4 x -3) = 36

Player Two (right):

10 + 8 + -13 x 4 = 20

The greatest answer wins all 8 cards.

Source: Acing Math