Math Games with Bad Drawings
75 1/4 Simple, Challenging, Go-anywhere Games--and Why They Matter
New York, NY : Black Dog & Leventhal, 2022, ©2022.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 368 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
"From beloved math popularizer Ben Orlin comes a masterfully compiled collection of dozens of playable mathematical games.This ultimate game chest draws on mathematical curios, childhood classics, and soon-to-be classics, each hand-chosen to be (1) fun, (2) thought-provoking, and (3) easy to play. With just paper, pens, and the occasional handful of coins, you and a partner can enjoy hours of fun--and hours of challenge." -- Amazon.com.
Contents:
Spatial games -- Dots and boxes -- Sprouts -- Ultimate tic-tac-toe -- Dandelions -- Quantum tic-tac-toe -- A constellation of spatial games -- Bunch of grapes -- Neutron -- Order and chaos -- Splatter -- 3D tic-tac-toe -- Number games -- Chopsticks -- sequencium -- 33 to 99 -- Pennywise -- Prophecies -- An enumeration of number games -- Mediocrity -- Black hole -- Jam -- Starlitaire -- Gridlock -- Tax collector -- Love and marriage -- Combination games -- Sim -- Teeko -- Neighbors -- Corners -- Amazons -- A combination platter of games -- Turning points -- Domineering -- Hold that line -- Cats and dogs -- Row call -- Games of risk and reward -- Undercut -- Arpeggios -- Outrageous -- Paper boxing -- Racetrack -- A quick shuffle of risk-and-reward games -- Pig -- Crossed -- Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock -- 101 and you're done -- The con game -- Breaking rank -- Information games -- Bullseyes and close calls -- Caveat Emptor -- LAP -- Quantum Go Fish -- Saesara -- A dispatch of Information games -- Battleship -- Quantum hangman -- Buried treasure -- Patters II -- Win, lose, banana -- Franco-Prussian Labyrinth.
ISBN:
9780762499861
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
MATH Orl | Ballentine Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-360) and index.