Top Trumps Card Game

This would be a game to play with your math students who are working on solving single step and two step equations in one variable.  Below is a sample card. 

The game rules are simple and you can get the cards by clicking here.  I am sure you could make up more cards yourself based on any theme you wanted.  You could even make them with say the Kennedy Senior Football team or even better/worse with Kennedy Staff and Administration on them.  I would hate to see the what Power Mrs. Pratt has or what Strength Mr. Crowley has.  You could even convert the questions to any other course as long as the 4 attributes the card has have a numeric answer.   Could make for a fun review.

The rules of the game are:

Top Trumps has been a very popular card game in the United Kingdom since the seventies. There are many different card decks with various subject matter, i.e. Cars, Planes, Films, Military Jets, famous TV shows, etc...

Top Trumps are now also available in the USA, based on the classic card game "War", it's played by choosing your best stat, trumping (beating) your opponent’s card, and winning the entire deck.

Each pack of Top Trumps consists of a number of cards (usually 30 or 32), each of which features in-game characters based on related subject matter which are full of stats, pictures and educational and interesting facts. The game is multiplayer and fits handily in the pocket so it can be played anywhere.

2-6 people can play. Deal out all the cards face down to the players. Each player holds their cards face up but may ONLY look at their top card.

The player to go first chooses the ‘best’ statistic (usually the highest) from their top card, e.g. “Top Speed 252mph”. All other players read out the SAME statistic. Whoever has the best or highest value wins and places all the top cards including their own to the bottom of their pile. They then choose the statistic for the next round.

During a round, if 2 or more cards ‘tie’ or no data is available for that particular statistic then all the cards are placed to one side and the same player chooses again from their next card. The winner of the hand also takes the cards that were placed to one side.

The first player to win all the cards is the winner of the game!