Math Concepts: counting up to five, thinking ahead. Players: two or more. Equipment: none. How to Play Each player starts with both hands as fists, palm down, pointer fingers extended to show one point for each hand. On your turn, use one of your fingers to tap one hand: • If you tap an opponent’s hand, that person must extend as many extra fingers on that hand (in addition to the points already there) as you have showing on the hand that tapped. Your own fingers don’t change. • If you force your opponent to extend all the fingers and thumb on one hand, that makes a “dead hand” that must be put behind the player’s back, out of the game. • If you tap your own hand, you can “split” fingers from one hand to the other. For instance, if you have three points on one hand and only one on the other, you may tap hands to rearrange them, putting out two fingers on each hand. Splits do not have to end up even, but each hand must end up with at least one point (and less than five, of course). • You may even revive a dead hand if you have enough fingers on your other hand to split. A dead hand has lost all its points, so it starts at zero. Check out the newest Chopsticks Remastered Update. Finally, the hardcore difficulty is out!!! Stay tuned for more difficulties and game modes coming up on the later. Aug 23, 2008 Even the scrooges will smile at 3 free months of ad-free music with YouTube Red. Pick Marble with Chopsticks Game - Duration: 0:54. This game will challenge your visual skills! You have lots of chopsticks to pick up one by one from top to bottom. Among all those chopsticks, can you find which one. Find great deals on eBay for chopsticks game and pick up sticks. Shop with confidence. ![]() ![]() ![]() When you tap it, you can share out the points from your other hand as you wish. The last player with a live hand wins the game. When a two-points hand taps a one-point hand, that player must put out two more fingers. Variations House Rule: Do you want a shorter game? Omit the splits. Or you could allow ordinary splits but not splitting fingers to dead hands. Nubs: All splits must share the fingers evenly between the hands. If you have an odd number of points, this will leave you with “half fingers,” shown by curling those fingers down. Zombies: (For advanced players.) If a hand is tapped with more fingers than are needed to put it out of the game, it comes back from the dead with the leftover points. For instance, if you have four fingers out, and your opponent taps you with a two-finger hand, that would fill up your hand with one point left over. Close your fist, and then hold out just the zombie point. In this variation, the only way to kill a hand is to give it exactly five points. History Finger-counting games are common in eastern Asia—and they must be contagious, since my daughters caught them from their Korean friends at college. Middle school teacher Nico Rowinsky shared Chopsticks (which is simpler than the version my daughters brought home) in a comment on the post at Dan Meyer’s blog. This post is an excerpt from my book, available now at your favorite online book dealer. Want to help your kids learn math? Claim your, and sign up to hear about new books, revisions, and sales or other promotions. I played The Chopsticks Game often in my childhood and became quite accomplished at it! It makes a fun racing game for parties and Chinese New Year gatherings. You can play as individuals or teams. Age: 6+ Each child will need a pair of chopsticks, and each child or team will need two bowls and a number of marbles, Maltesers, Smartees, peanuts or marshmallows. Place the bowls about 6-8 feet apart, on tables or chairs. Put the objects in one of the bowls. When you call 'start', each child must pick up one of his objects, using only his chopsticks, and carry it to the empty bowl. He then returns for the next object, and so on until he has moved all his objects safely across and is the winner. Hands must not be used at any time! If an object is dropped, it must be picked up and put back in the first bowl. You are only allowed to move one object at a time. You can make this game easier by varying the objects. Marbles are hardest, marshmallows are easiest! If you are playing with individual children, we suggest at least 10 objects to make the game last a decent time. For a team challenge, you might want only 3 or 4 objects, depending on the number of children in the team.
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