The Royal Three are three different games designed for two players using a deck of regular playing cards.
The first game, “Path to the King”, is a simple card-drawing game that utilizes pattern-matching and numerical progression including the ordering of abstract symbols, eg: the face cards.
The second game, “Betting on Royalty”, is also a card-drawing game, but one that provides the opportunity to talk about the probability of drawing a particular card and how that probability changes each time a card is drawn and becomes known.
The third game, “Battle Royale”, is a more involved game of card-capture that provides a framework for practicing addition and greater than / less than comparisons. It also includes the potential for exploring strategic thinking around finding the most efficient solution for capturing cards.
Note: Each of these games has its own suggested age requirement.
Ages 4+ 
2 players 
5-10 min.
This is a free mini-game. Download the rules here.
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- Cube-Or-ACK! – if you like games with math concepts hidden inside, try this strategic cube-building game using math manipulatives.
- Pirates vs. Skeletons – a 2-player dice-rolling game using pirates and skeletons to introduce early math.
- Game Dice Polyhedrons – templates for the six common multi-sided game dice (aka polyhedrons).