Some new Math Games

Chomp

Chomp - UCLA Math

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Cram

Cram is a visual game played on a grid of squares. 4×4 or 6×6 are common, but encourage your students to try other (even irregular) board sizes. Two players compete, placing 2×1 rectangles onto the grid. The last player to successfully place a piece wins.

Here is a sample Cram game played on a 4×4 grid. Eventually, red cannot make a move.

Sprouts

Sprouts is a dot and line game played with just paper and pencil. Students draw a small set of dots to begin (even two dots is enough). The object is to continue connecting those dots with lines.

1. Connect two dots with a line (curvy is fine).
2. Put a new dot somewhere on that line.
3. Repeat.
4. Each dot can only have three lines connected to it.
5. Lines may never cross each other.
6. You lose when you can’t draw another line.

In this sample, there is only one dot remaining in the end with fewer than three connections, so the player cannot make a new line.