Funny challenges… with sweets! Add-ventures is a fun game that tests the calculation skills of children aged 8 and above. Who will be the quickest to figure out how many sweets to pocket? With addition and subtraction, it all seems very simple—but beware: even the easiest calculations can catch you out!

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The box contents

50 Challenge cards

4 game boards

64 tiles

Numbers to subtract

Reward tokens

1 sand timer

HOW TO PLAY?

1. Children start by drawing the first Challenge Card and by placing it at the centre of the table.
2. The players’ task is to place on their own Game Board the correct values, both in columns and rows, that give the result indicated on the sides of the Challenge Card.
3. The tiles showing the quantities can be added or subtracted: red tiles can only be subtracted.
4. As soon as one of the players completes the challenge, he/she flips the sand timer, so that the other players have just 30 seconds to finish the challenge. When time runs out, no more tiles can be moved, and the solutions are checked.
5. If it’s correct, the player earns a reward sweet. If he/she makes a mistake or runs out of time, they must return one. To win, 7 sweets need to be collected by the end of 10 rounds!

OR… CHALLENGE YOURSELF!

Choose a board, place the deck of cards in front of you, and set a time limit to solve each challenge.

Let’s play…

Challenge cards, covered, on the table. One game board + set of 16 coloured tiles to each player.

Leaf through some selected pages from the instructions book that have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:

The Authors

Luca Borsa, engineer and board game author. He has taught game design courses and is actively involved in game-based learning, educational training through play, and gamification. He was a speaker at TEDx Busto Arsizio with the talk “A Life in Play, Inside and Outside the Box”, where he explored the world of games.

Luca Bellini, architect and game designer. He entered the world of game design almost by chance, creating a game to support the Barabba’s Clowns Association, where he serves as president.