Capture That Fraction

What You Do:

1. Remove face cards from the deck and put them aside. Shuffle the remaining cards.
2. Divide the deck between the two players. Each player should place their deck face down next to themselves.
3. Players simultaneously turn over two cards from their decks and place them on their game boards, using one card as a numerator and one card as a denominator.
4. Players calculate who has the largest fraction. The simplest method of comparing fractions would be to multiply each fraction by the denominator of the other fraction. (For example, with the fractions 1/2 and 1/3, compute 1/2 x 3/3 = 3/6 and 1/3 x 2/2 = 2/6. Clearly, 1/2 is the larger fraction, because 3/6 is larger than 2/6.)
5. The player who has the largest fraction wins all of the cards from that round. If there is a tie, split the cards evenly among players.
6. Play until one player has accumulated all of the cards or time is up. The player with the most cards wins the game.

Variations:

• Require players to place the smaller card in the numerator and the larger in the denominator.
• Change the rules so the smaller fraction wins.
• Add in face cards and give them their respective values (jack = 11, queen = 12, king = 13).