Friday Favourites: 10 Maths Games You Don’t Want to Miss

We are a nerdy maths-loving family ("I'll love you til the last digit of Pi...") so people tend to give us maths games.

These are my boys' favourites:

1. Fraction Snap
2. Pass the Pigs
3. Yahtzee
4. Cribbage
5. Canasta
6. Geometrical Riddles (Note: once done, they're done and can't be done twice)
7. Blokus for spatial skills
8. ThinkFun Math Dice, great for times tables
9. Dragonwood for probability (Even I enjoy this one, and that's saying something!)
10. Four Strikes 

Four Strikes is like hangman, but with numbers!  Great family bonding game, or a boredom buster when you're twiddling your thumbs waiting for your child's bubbacino with sprinkles, mini-marshmallows and olives.  (I know a kid who requests this, seriously!).

The first person thinks of an equation and writes it out with dashes replacing the digits.

___ + ___ = ___ ___

The other people guess any digit from 0 to 9.

If the digit is not in the equation, they get a strike.  

Guess the equation before four strikes!

What are your favourite family maths games?  Please tell us in the comments!

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