Math Delights

Single players or teams try to climb a number ladder as high as possible.

How to Play:

1. Each player or team draws a ladder on a piece of paper. Label the first rung 1, the second 2, the third, 3 and so on. As you play you can add more rungs.
2. Shuffle cards from 1-10. You can use a regular deck and take out the picture cards or a Krypto deck and use the cards that are 10 or smaller. Deal each player or team ten cards. Use these same ten cards over and over.
3. If you have a 1 card, write 1 on the first rung of your ladder. If you don't have a 1 card, make an equation that equals 1 by adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing the numbers on your cards. Write your equation on the first rung.
4. Now go to the second rung. If you have a 2 card, write 2 on the second rung of your ladder. If you don't have a 2 card, use your cards to make an equation that equals 2 and write it on the second rung. Next find or make 3,4,5, etc.. Write your equation on each rung.
5. You may NOT put two cards together to make a two-digit number. For example, a 3 card and a 4 card DO NOT make 34 or 43.
6. Keep climbing the ladder, one rung at a time, until you can't make an equation that yields the next rung's number. The highest rung you climb to is your score.
7. Each card may be used only ONCE in an equation, but you may use all your cards again for the next equation.
8. You can make complicated equations or simple ones.

To make the game more challenging, deal each player 5 instead of 10 cards.

This game is from Number Jugglers: Math Game Book, which describes around 20 other number games and also includes a deck of cards.

For an online version of the game, visit www.numberjugglers.com/howtoplaynlg.html