See the 101 circle? It’s the big red circle at the center of the spiral. The goal of Prime Climb is to land both your pawns on 101 exactly. Rules

Whether players are racing as fast as they can to 101, bumping each other to the start or sneakily deploying cards, Prime Climb is simply a fun board game to play and its mechanics and gameplay should keep kids and adults interested for quite some time. Good way to practice and visualize math Whoever gets a single pawn to 101 wins. A perfect game when time is short. This game often takes less than five minutes. ORGANIZATIONAL COMPONENT : ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Prime Climb is designed beautifully with quality pieces, though the pawns could probably take an upgrade. The box is sturdy, but not small. It does have a divider insert which helps keep things neat. The board is the fold-out type and is very well-made and easy to fold/unfold. ORGANIZATIONAL COMPONENT : 5/5 ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ How can you get two pawns from 0 to 101 in four rolls (that’s eight numbers) without any number appearing on a die more than once?Created by Dan Finkel and Katherine Cook and published by Math For Love, Prime Climb is a strategy board game designed to help kids hone their math skills. More than that, we appreciate how the game introduces an element of goal-directed strategic math thinking, where students go beyond simply generating a simple answer and instead have to select operations that will yield a result to suit their needs and purpose.

In normal game play, Bump and Draw Phases happen after all your moves are completed. In Double Time, you bump and draw after each move a pawn. You can draw two or more Prime cards per turn in Double Time. For example, say you have a pawn at 14 and one of your rolls is a 3. You decide to multiply 14 by 3, but aren’t sure what that product is. The colors will tell you. Notice that 14 is orange and purple, while 3 is green. That means that 14 times 3 will be orange, purple, and green. The only circle with exactly those colors is 42, which is 14 times 3.The game feels somewhat similar to games such as Trouble, Sorry or Headache, but has an interesting and very useful educational twist to it that we really appreciate. Lay out the board, shuffle the cards, place two pawns on Start for each player, and roll the dice to decide who will play first. You’re ready to go! Goal of the Game STEP THIRTEEN: Because Player One has a pawn on an all-red spot {11}, he gets to DRAW a card. It’s a KEEPER card that he can use on a future turn. So, his turn is now over. As fun and as potentially useful an educational resource as it might be, at the end of the day Prime Climb is still a board game and may not appeal to those who don’t enjoy them. Parents looking to work on math skills that aren’t related to its gameplay STEP ELEVEN: Player One uses the 4 die and adds it to the 7 that it’s on and MOVES that pawn to 11. Then he uses the 10 die and multiplies it with the 10 spot and MOVES that pawn to 100.

After you play a card, discard it. If you run out of cards, shuffle the discard pile and continue drawing as necessary. 101 and Winning the Game As we’ve mentioned, if a player lands on a red space (representing a prime number), they can draw a Prime Card.Each turn has a player roll the dice, which results in them getting two numbers – a 6 and a 2, for example. Prime Climb is playful learning as it should be, where the play actually reinforces students’ discovery and understanding of mathematical concepts. It takes a creative mathematics educator like Dan Finkel to achieve that balance. It is obvious from the design of Prime Climb that Dan’s pedagogical aims fuel every aspect of gameplay. A: Yes! Depending on the situation, moving one pawn might be a better move than moving both, or vice versa. Making this decision is an important part of the strategy of Prime Climb.