Games World of Puzzles

Arithmetical Croquet

JULY/AUGUST 1979

RULES

1. The first player names a number not greater than 8: the second does the same: the first then names a higher number [higher than his own last named number], not advancing more than 8 beyond his last; and so on alternately—whoever names 100, which is “winning-peg,” wins the game.

The numbers 10, 20,

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