Games to improve your math skills
Brent Mair
United States
Roy
Utah
I won this badge from Daniel Karp in a poker game.
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Here are a list of games that help you improve your mathematical skills because they require multiplication, squares, etc.
I've searched for similar lists but I was surprised that I couldn't find any. Feel free to post them here also (as if you needed permission).
Or please add your own games that help improve math skills.
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Brent Mair
United States
Roy
Utah
I won this badge from Daniel Karp in a poker game.
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It's all about the math. Add and subtract out the tiles then multiply the sum times the value of your kingdom.
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Board Game: Torres
[Average Rating:7.24 Overall Rank:184]
Brent Mair
United States
Roy
Utah
I won this badge from Daniel Karp in a poker game.
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Multiply height times base size. Plenty of games like this one.
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Brent Mair
United States
Roy
Utah
I won this badge from Daniel Karp in a poker game.
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A word game? No, a math game. You buy and sell based on the squares of the number of dots on the letters.
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Brent Mair
United States
Roy
Utah
I won this badge from Daniel Karp in a poker game.
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Multiplication. Field size times number of crops.
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Brent Mair
United States
Roy
Utah
I won this badge from Daniel Karp in a poker game.
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Multiplication. Your food times the King's food (unless you take too much).
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Board Game: Oasis
[Average Rating:6.79 Overall Rank:551]
Brent Mair
United States
Roy
Utah
I won this badge from Daniel Karp in a poker game.
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Multiplication. Your field size (or camel group) multiplied by the tiles in front of you.
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Brent Mair
United States
Roy
Utah
I won this badge from Daniel Karp in a poker game.
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Add up the values in the completed rows. Plenty of adding.
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Brent Mair
United States
Roy
Utah
I won this badge from Daniel Karp in a poker game.
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Add up the numbers in your column. Subtract twenty. Multiply if applicable.
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Board Game: Outpost
[Average Rating:7.07 Overall Rank:769]
Jeroen Doumen
Netherlands
Eindhoven
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Even though it's just additions...
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Board Game: Tuf
[Average Rating:5.10 Overall Rank:6595]
Steve Bachman
United States
Colonie
New York
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You might need to brush up on your math skills first, but this game should definitely improve them as well.
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Rich K
United States
San Rafael
California
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How could forget Scrabble?
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David Fair
United States
Rockville
Maryland
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I just played a few minutes ago, and had to figure out 19x19.
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Board Game: Acquire
[Average Rating:7.43 Overall Rank:99]
Myke Madsen
United States
Salt Lake City
Utah
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This one involves a lot of math by the banker every single turn. Nothing too hard, but there's a lot of it...
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Eric Johnson
United States
Littleton
Colorado
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The last half of the game turns into a brain burning math problem. This game should be a teaching aid for 5th and 6th grade students.
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Ed Bryan
United States
Barbourville
Kentucky
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Trying to add up all of Britian's income in this one is tough! Defintely a lot of math.
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Board Game: Numble
[Average Rating:5.47 Unranked]
Daniel "Cahwyguy" Faigin
United States
Northridge
California
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This is a scrabble variant that involves constructing a sequence of numbers that add up to a multiple of three. The numbers must be in ascending or descending order, and there are double/triple sequence squares (totalling the entire sequence) as well as double/triple tile (2x or 3x the tile for first use). Zero can be used to terminate a sequence, and a blank tile is simply that: a space, not a wild card.
Quite a good game.
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Gerald McDaniel
United States
Lakewood
Colorado
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I just received this game for Christmas. From what I had read about it, and from what I read in the rules, this game may really stretch your math patience. I see that one or more spreadsheets have been posted here, to do the math for you. I'm about ready to try a solitaire game of this, so I'll soon find out about the math work.
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Todd Werner
United States
Portland
United States
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My gaming group doesn't particularly like PoF, and my reason is there's too much math (and I have a mathematics degree...) Always adding up your work points, and then there's the optimization problem of determining how many VPs to take from your work and how much money (plus a conversion rate!)
Too much math makes PoF a dull game.
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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A classic from the ol' school days (see comments below). Thanks to Snixon for pointing out the correct spelling (Krypto w/ a "K").
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simon craddock
England
widnes
cheshire
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A nice kids game all about maths
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Brian A
United States
Las Vegas
Nevada
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Brewery and beergarden share income, players split further from there. Any remainder goes to boss piece.
Lotsa nice division!
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Susan Rozmiarek
United States
Liberty Hill
Texas
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A math version of Scrabble is what this appears to be. I've never played it, but I've been tempted to get it to try with my math geek family. The thing that is keeping me from pulling the trigger is that it looks so, so, educational or something.
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Steve Oliver
United States
Alameda
California
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Cronberg is similar to Auf Heller und Pfennig. I'm planning on introducing this game to 3rd and 4th grade students because there are both positive and negative numbers to add and multiply each turn. For example, a player lays a building tile then adds 4 - 2 - 4 + 1 to get -9, then possibly multiply that by 2 or 3 or 4, or turn it into a positive number. And it's a fun game. Available for free at the publisher's web site.
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David Bush
United States
Lexington
Virginia
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I'm surprised no one else added this, the geekiest of them all. The dice contain digits and arithmetic symbols including powers and roots. Players try to find ways to form an expression which equals the goal value. About half the rules pertain to challenging violations of the rules. Even so, the rules to the basic game can fit on a single page; see the files section.
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Board Game: Smath
[Average Rating:3.92 Overall Rank:7394]
Falafel Palmer
United States
Seattle
Washington
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Scrabble+Math=SMATH...see, there was some math right there
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Mather
California
Long Beach
California