MAKE A TEN GAME
You will need:
- Game Mats
- A Deck of Playing Cards
To get started, shuffle the deck {minus the face cards of course}, and deal the entire stack out between the two of you. Then place the deck face down on the mats and flip the top four cards over onto the numbered spots.
The goal of the game is simple – to make ten using any combination of the four facing up cards. If you can make ten, you take those cards, show them to your partner, place them off to the side and replace them with new cards from the deck. Then your turn is over and it’s your partner’s turn!
If you can’t make ten, you choose one of your face up cards to put at the bottom of your deck, before replacing it with a new card from the top of the deck.
Any combination goes when making “a ten”! Whether it’s a single ’10’ card, a pair of cards that add up to 10, or even 3 or 4 cards that can be added up to make 10, it’s all good! Anything goes when making groups of 10.
What I love about this game is that it really gets you thinking. Though sometimes you’ll get a ’10’ card {or a simple combination of ten} and it’ll be really easy, other times you have to get creative in order to come up with a combination of cards that make ten. Throughout our game, say things like, ‘Well I know that 5 and 5 make 10, but I only have one 5… But WAIT! I also have a 2 and a 3 and that makes 5, so really that’s like having two 5s!!!’ OR “I have 7s and 8s, and those can’t be put together to make 10, but if I could make a trade and get a 2 or a 3, then I could!’
The game ends when you run out of cards or when you can no longer make any more groups of ten.
MAKE A TEN GAME
You will need:
- Game Mats
- A Deck of Playing Cards
To get started, shuffle the deck {minus the face cards of course}, and deal the entire stack out between the two of you. Then place the deck face down on the mats and flip the top four cards over onto the numbered spots.
The goal of the game is simple – to make ten using any combination of the four facing up cards. If you can make ten, you take those cards, show them to your partner, place them off to the side and replace them with new cards from the deck. Then your turn is over and it’s your partner’s turn!
If you can’t make ten, you choose one of your face up cards to put at the bottom of your deck, before replacing it with a new card from the top of the deck.
Any combination goes when making “a ten”! Whether it’s a single ’10’ card, a pair of cards that add up to 10, or even 3 or 4 cards that can be added up to make 10, it’s all good! Anything goes when making groups of 10.
What I love about this game is that it really gets you thinking. Though sometimes you’ll get a ’10’ card {or a simple combination of ten} and it’ll be really easy, other times you have to get creative in order to come up with a combination of cards that make ten. Throughout our game, say things like, ‘Well I know that 5 and 5 make 10, but I only have one 5… But WAIT! I also have a 2 and a 3 and that makes 5, so really that’s like having two 5s!!!’ OR “I have 7s and 8s, and those can’t be put together to make 10, but if I could make a trade and get a 2 or a 3, then I could!’
The game ends when you run out of cards or when you can no longer make any more groups of ten.
