Today we played another game from mathemagician Andrew Jeffrey’s great book. Andrew very kindly donated the proceeds of this book to SAMI.
This game using the cards from Ace (one) up to 9 from a deck of cards.
- The cards are shuffled and each player is dealt 9 cards.
- The players then have to arrange their cards to make a 4-digit number, a 3-digit number and a 2-digit number and put the cards face down on the table.
- Then the players show their numbers and compare them to each other.
- The player with the biggest 2-digit number receives 2 points, the one with the biggest 3-digit number receives 3 points and the one with the biggest 4-digit number receives 4 points.
- If there’s a tie then the points are split between the players.
- Play five times and see who is the winner …
Can you find a good strategy for this game?