Prime Climb (Board Game)

Prime Climb is a new board game that uses arithmetic to open abeautiful world of possibility. Players race to be the first to get to thecenter of the board while avoiding getting knocked back to the start by otherplayers. Highlighting the power of the prime numbers, Prime Climb ismathematical, deep, creative, and fun.

Each player controls two pawns that start at the 0 circle. Players taketurns rolling two 10-sided dice and applying the values to their two pawns usingany of the four basic arithmetic operations: addition, subtraction,multiplication, and division. The first to get both pawns into the 101 circleexactly wins the game! Be careful: if another player lands on you, you get sentback to the start. Along the way, players who land on the red circles collectPrime cardssome are helpful now, some are helpful later, and a few aretrouble!

Features:

• One of the great innovations of Prime Climb is the coloring scheme.
• Each of the prime numbers less than 10 has its own color: 2 is orange,3 is green, 5 is blue, and 7 is purple.
• After 10, each prime number is red. Any number that is not a prime is a mixof colors that corresponds to its prime factors.
• For example, 14 = 2 7, so the 14 circle is half orange and halfpurple.
• The color coding allows players a way to quickly analyze the factors andmultiples of the numbers on the board.
• This helps players check their multiplication and division, and even allowskids who haven’t yet learned multiplication to play the game.