A playing card game for primary and elementray school students where students need to move their counter and flip over all of their cards. They move a counter along the cards by the number they have just landed on. The game is great to teach counting and about how to think logically and strategically.
Learning Outcomes:
- Counting
- Mathematical Reasoning
- Strategies
- Logical thinking
Required Material
- 2 Players
- A deck of cards
- 2 counter
Aim of the Game:
- To flip all of your cards over before the other player.
How to Play:
- Remove the jacks, queens, kings and jokers
- Shuffle the cards and place them face up in a rectangular formation 5 cards high by eight cards long
- Each player needs to choose which suit of cards they are going to flip over
- The players then choose where they are going to start from, they have to choose a card from the edge which is not of their suit
- To flip a card a player needs to land on the card, they can then flip the card and put the counter back on the card now that it’s face down
- Players can move either horizontally or vertically, not diagonally. The number card they were sitting on designates how many spaces they can move (If they are on a 5 they can move 5 spaces on their next turn.)
- Players cannot move onto or jump over cards that have been flipped.
- The winner is the player who flips over all of their 10 cards first.
- If no players can reach their cards to flip them over then the winner is the player who has flipped over the most.
Notes:
The trick of this game is to think ahead and decide which is the best card to land on that will give you the quickest path to your cards. A player may be able to land on a 4 or a 9, if they land on a 4 they also know they will be able to land on a 5 and then a 7. In this case they’re better to go for the 4 than the 9.
Encourage students to develop their own card layouts, they could make a rectangle that is 4 cards by 10 cards or they could make a different shape other than a rectangle.
For a bit of fun try this game with 3 or more players. You could also try it with two decks of cards shuffled together.
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