COUNTER CHALLENGE REVIEW

This is a challenging board game for two that uses and practises maths skills, addition, subtraction, division but particularly multiplication.

There are different methods of scoring to suit the abilities of the players.
An excellent and fun quality game for children (8+) and adults, it comprises of a board with 24 beech counters. We found the rules a bit confusing and difficult at first,but once we had worked through them carefully there was no stopping us. Very much a game of strategy using moves not dissimilar to chess.

Each player has a set of twelve counters, each counter being marked with two sets of numbers. The board is marked out with different patterned squares that allow moves in different directions. The aim is to capture the opponent’s counter and worked out the score for that capture by multiplying the numbers and then using the addition, subtraction or division scoring option.
The game is an ingenious way of improving mental arithmetic in a fun way.

We loved it.

Published in Education Otherwise, December2003
Author, Keith Hall with Keith junior.    www.education-otherwise.org