 How familiar are you with the multiples of 2 through 10? This game gives you many opportunities to build strategies to find multiples of a target number. For this game, you will need a deck of cards with kings and jacks removed. You also need at least 5 tokens per player to keep score. The object of the game is to play cards that add to a multiple of the target number. Queens represent the number 0, Aces represent the number 1. Use the numbers on the other cards as shown. Shuffle the deck, deal 5 cards to each player. Put the rest of the deck face down on the table and flip over the top card until there's a 2 or higher. The number on this card is the target number. The player to the left of the dealer plays first. On your turn, use addition and subtraction to combine your cards to make multiples of the target number. Each number may be used only once. Place one of the multiples from your hand on the table. Take a token. If you use all of the cards in your hand, take an extra token. If you cannot make any multiples of the target number, discard one card. Replace the cards you put down with the cards from the deck so that your hand has 5 cards again. Your turn ends. Play continues to the left until the entire deck is used. Now let's watch the first round play out. Do you have 5 cards? Alright, so our target number is going to be 8. So we're going to use our cards to look for multiples of 8. Do you want to go first? So if you don't have one, you just discard one. Take one after you put one down. Oh no! Alright, so I'm going to play 9 plus 9. Oh wait, that's not a multiple. So I'm going to play, I don't know if I have one either. I'm going to get rid of my 6. And I have the exact same thing. Alright, so which one are you going to get rid of? Same. Alright, so I'm going to play 9 and 7 to get 16. 8 times 2 is 16, so it's a multiple. So I get to take a token. Reshuffle the deck and deal 5 cards to each player. Turn up the top card to reveal the target number and the starting sum of the round. Your goal is to make multiples of the target number. On your turn, lay down a card. Add it to the previous sum. State aloud the sum of all the cards played so far, including the one you just laid down. If the sum of the played cards is a multiple of the target number, state how you know it's a multiple and take a token. Replace the card with a card from the deck. Your turn ends. Play continues to the left until each player earns 5 tokens. Now we can see how this round plays out. Time, our target number is 6. And you can only play one card at a time this round. So you can't play 2 or 3? Yeah, we can only play 1. So that makes this one a little bit harder. So I couldn't do like 3 plus 3 is 6. But you can play 6. I'll play 6 and I get 1. And so what? 6 plus 6 is 12. 12. And I'm gonna play my... Oh, and then you get to take a card after you put one down again? Yeah. And so I'm gonna play my 10. So 12 plus 10 is 22. And so I didn't make a multiple. So I don't get to take a token. Who wins? Play until each player has at least 5 tokens. Then the player with the most tokens wins. Here are some questions to think about while playing. Does 0 count as a multiple? If so, for which target number is 0 a multiple? What is the relationship between one multiple and the next two multiples? What strategies do you want to remember for the next time you play? For some more fun, try these variations. Have it both ways. Use addition and subtraction to find multiples in round 2. Some more than others. Use operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in round 1. More cards. Deal out 6, 7 or 8 cards to each player and play round 1 and 2 again. Have fun playing. Can't wait to see how many multiples you can find.