by MathPickle | Feb 13, 2020 |
The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine (2-5 players; 20 minutes; ages 10+) The Crew is the best cooperative gaming experience since Hanabi. It is a trick taking card game in which everyone must work together to ensure that certain players win tricks containing certain...
by MathPickle | Jul 13, 2019 |
Solving murder mysteries have police making connections between underworld characters. Strings are pinned up between existing suspects. New subjects are pinned up. It all looks like a big mess. But never fear! We are here to bring order to this chaos! Hopefully, our...
by MathPickle | Jul 1, 2019 |
Number One! This challenge is for everyone out there who loves their team to be #1. It’s a great number! The number one is created using different positive integers in a fraction. The first time this is possible is when the maximum integer is six. Yippee! We...
by MathPickle | Jun 5, 2019 |
Speed Guess Fraction (MathPickle, 2019) This game works because the top students do not have time to figure out the right answer so everyone has a chance to win. Keep the selection phase ridiculously short at 20 seconds. The game is a great way to increase student...
by MathPickle | Jun 5, 2019 |
Packing Pasta (MathPickle, 2019) This problem is good to introduce volume and density calculations to a classroom. Top students and those interested can continue to the greatest packing website in recreational mathematics: Erich’s Packing Center. The pages...
