We played a game posted on youtube by Mr Allen.
Here are his instructions:
This is a card game I made up where you do basic mental calculations and race your opponent ( 2-4 players). Using Ace -10 cards only. Rules: 7 cards are placed face up for each player and two in the middle. The player who gets rid of their cards first wins. You can put a card in the middle (on top of either pile) when one of your cards is an answer to an expression using the two cards in the middle. eg. if 6 and 2 are in the middle possible cards that can be played are 8 (6+2) or 4 (6-2) or 3 (6 divided by 2) or 2 (6×2) – 12 is the answer but we use the last digit only. Each player has to say the expression as they put the card down. eg 6 twos are 12 – placing the 2. or 6 minus/take/sub 2 is 4. all players play on until no cards can be played. Then the dealer deals each player a card then put one on one of the two middle piles. Players then race to place cards until someone gets rid of all their cards! (4 players start with 6 cards)
We played a few games of this and made up our own versions:
- Instead of a race we played in turn – competitively or collaboratively
- We removed the 9s and 10s and played in mod 8