Prime Slap

A card game that turns math into a wild prime-chasing, yeti-seeking, card-slapping adventure!

How to Play

Detailed Game Instructions

PLAYERS: 2-4 AGES: 5+ TIME: 10-15 minutes

OBJECTIVE

The objective of Prime Slap™ is to win the most cards.

COMPONENTS

50 cards
15 Prime Number Cards (have only one character on the card)
34 Composite Number Cards (have multiple characters on the card)
1 Wild Card (Yeti)
Instructions

SETUP

The deck is divided evenly among the players, face down, giving each a down stack.

GAME PLAY

In unison, each player reveals the top card of their deck—this is a “battle”—and the player with the highest card takes all the cards played and moves them to their win stack. Unless a prime number card is played.

PRIME NUMBER CARDS

If a prime number card (only one character) is played the users race to be the first to slap the prime. The player whose hand covers the prime with their hand, takes all the cards and moves them to their win stack.

If a player slaps a composite number (more than one character), they automatically lose that flip. Of the remaining players the one with the highest card takes the pile, additionally as a consequence of the false slap, the player who slapped incorrectly has to give an additional card to the winner.

WILD CARD

The ONE/Yeti card is a wild card, as “one” is neither a prime nor composite number. The player who reveals the Yeti card will take all the cards and move them to their win stack, regardless of the cards played by other players.

HOW TO WIN

When all players cards from the down stack have been played, each player totals the cards in their win stack. The player with the most cards wins.

ALTERNATE GAME PLAY

Emotion Acting: Rather than slapping the prime numbers, players could also decide to act out the emotions of the prime number characters. The player who acts it out first takes the cards and moves them to their win stack.

Concepts and Skills

PRIME & COMPOSITE NUMBERS

Prime Number: Can ONLY be divided by itself and 1

Composite Number: Can be divided by itself, 1 and at least one other divisor

Prime Numbers are the building blocks of all whole numbers. Every number across the number line is either a prime number or composed of primes.

At Intellivance we visually represent each prime number as a single symbol (or character). Each composite number demonstrates the primes it is made of and displays all the possible factor combinations within that composite number.

MATH SKILLS

Number/Quantity Relationships
Groups of Numbers
Factors and multiples
Prime and Composite Numbers

SHAPES AND COLORS SKILLS

Color recognition
Shape recognition
Pattern recognition

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING SKILLS

Emotion recognition
Emotional interaction cause and effect
Emotion modeling