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Paper-and-pencil grid games, unusual versions of tic-tac-toe, and new ways to play chess.
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The Game of 100
Who can get to 100 first in this simple, but delightful, math game?
Gr 2-7
Game: Order and Chaos
Imagine Tic-Tac-Toe if
both
players could play as both Xs
and
Os!
Gr 1-8
How to Play Go
Ready to learn a 2,500-year-old Chinese board game? Let’s… Go!
Gr 1-8
Game: Snakes
In this grid-based strategy game, who will be the last to add to the snake?
Gr 3-8
Jotto
Who can guess the codeword first?
Gr 1-5
Charge of the Light Brigade – Chess Variant
What if one side played with THREE QUEENS and the other had SEVEN KNIGHTS!? What if?
Gr 2-8
Racetrack – Race Around A Graph
How fast do you get your mathematical car going without crashing?
Gr 5-7
Ultimate (or Inception) Tic Tac Toe
What if each square on a Tic-Tac-Toe board had another Tic-Tac-Toe board inside of it?
Gr 1-8
Chomp
Chomp away at your opponent in this grid-based strategy game.
Gr 1-8
Game: Gomoku
Want to take Tic-Tac-Toe to the
next level!?
Imagine a 15×15 board. You must get five-in-a-row. You
cannot
get six-in-a-row. That’s Gomoku!
Gr 1-8
Maze Generator
Create and print mazes for your students – with bonus side quests!
Math Game: Heaps
Try this a simple (but surprisingly strategic) subtraction game!
Gr 1-8
Anti-Checkers
Sure, anyone can
win
at checkers… but can you
lose!?
Gr 4-8
Col – A Strategy Game
The first person to run out of regions loses in this strategy game.
Gr 1-8
Contig
Roll three dice and combine them using any mathematical operation. But be strategic to maximize your points!
Gr 3-7
Dots and Boxes
Who can make the most boxes from dots in this strategy game?
Gr 1-7
Horde Chess Variant
What if one player had, say,
32 pawns?
Gr 1-8
Sprouts
Learn how to play the abstract, paper-and-pencil game Sprouts.
Gr 1-8
Ghost
Ghost is a word-building game for two players. The first person to create an actual word loses.
Gr 1-4
Game: Wild Tic Tac Toe
Imagine Tic-Tac-Toe, but both players can both play as both X and O throughout the whole game!
Gr 3-8
Game: Notakto
What if you only played Tic-Tac-Toe with Xs
and
you could play on multiple boards?
Gr 1-8
Fizz Buzz: A Counting and Divisibility Game
Ready for a tricky counting and divisibility game?
Gr 3-6
Bulls and Cows
How quickly can you break the numeric code?
Gr 1-8
Microchess (Chess Variant)
What if we played chess on a board that’s only 4×5?
Gr 1-8
Chess Variant: Monster Chess
What if you had really weak chess pieces, but you could always move twice?
Gr 1-8
Cram
Try this a simple (but surprisingly strategic) grid-filling game!
Gr 1-8
Four Player Chess
Tired of
boring ol’ chess?
Then you need to try FOUR PLAYER chess!
Gr 2-8