Card Suit Race

What You Do:

1. Players/teams each select a suit  and place their markers on the game board at their suit's starting position.
2. Shuffle the deck of cards and place it face down in a draw pile.
3. Player 1 draws a card and places it face up in a discard pile. If the card's suit matches Player 1's suit, Player 1 gets to move their place marker the number of spaces shown on the card. (Aces count 1, and face cards count 10.) If the suit does not match, play moves on to the next person.
4. Take turns flipping cards and moving place markers. The first player to reach the finish line wins! (If the deck runs out before this happens, reshuffle the cards and continue to play.)

Variations:

• Make a longer track by taping multiple copies of the game board together.
• Create your own deck of cards using index cards and markers. Use numbers you'd like to work with (e.g. 1-5).
• Practice addition by drawing two cards at a time and finding their sum. (You can change the rules so that players don't have to match their suit or they just have to match one card.) You'll want a longer game board for this version.
• Practice subtraction by drawing two cards at a time and finding their difference.
• Change the rules entirely, so that a place marker is moved forward on a spade, heart, or diamond, but backward on a club. Return to start if the card is a joker.