Krypto is a card game designed by Daniel Yovich in 1963. This game is a great opportunity to build flexibility with numbers and operations.
Goal: Be the first player to create a sequence to achieve the target card value.
How to Play: The Krypto deck consists of 56 cards: three each of numbers 1-6, four each of the numbers 7-10, two each of 11-17, one each of 18-25.
Six cards are dealt: a common target card at the top and five other cards below.
Each player must use all five of the cards' numbers exactly once, using any combination of operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division), to form the target card's number.
The first player to come up with a correct sequence wins. Order of operations matters!
This can be played collaboratively with the same five numbers for all players or each player can have their own different set of five cards.
For example:
| Target Card: 20 | Cards: 2, 1, 2, 2, 3 |
2 + 1 = 3
3 × 3 = 9
9 × 2 = 18
18 + 2 = 20
OR
| Target Card: 1 | Cards: 24, 22, 23, 20, 21 |
22 + 24 = 46
46 ÷ 23 = 2
2 + 20 = 22
22 – 21 = 1
Alternate Variations
Primary Version To modify this game you can use a set of Primary Krypto cards in which the deck has three of each of the numbers from 1-10.