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This strategy game requires a few playing cards and a simple game board print-out. Your second grader will enjoy analyzing possible plays in order to successfully block his opponent. This activity is an excellent way to practice critical thinking skills and problem solving. Play again and again, and try to notice the patterns that help a player win!

What You Need:

  • Four playing cards, two each of the same rank and color
  • One Block 'Em game board (Print this out.)

What You Do:

  1. Each player needs to have two cards of the same rank and color. (e.g. two red kings)
  2. Players take turns placing their cards, face up and one at a time, into one of the five spaces on the game board.
  3. Players take turns sliding one of their cards into the empty space on the game board. Use the connecting lines between the spaces to determine possible moves for each card.
  4. The game is over when a player has been blocked and cannot make a move.