Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Equations Tournament


Today Jordan got to go to an Equations Tournament. What is that? Well here is Jordan's explanation: The game is played with four to as many players as you want. You have four different colors and each color has 5 different dice. Each dice has a mixture of numbers and symbols. The numbers on the dice is 1-9 and the symbols are /,x,+,-, square root, and power. There is a goal setter. He/she rolls the dice and sets the dice in order. The symbols and the numbers are separate. The board has a goal part on the bottom right hand corner with an equal sign with the word solution and the word goal. The goal setter then puts a goal like 4x5 on the goal side of the bottom part. Then the person to the left of the goal setter puts the first dice that are left onto the board. There are 3 parts of the board; forbidden, permitted, required. Forbidden you can't use at all. Permitted you can use it but you don't have to, and required you have to use. If it able to call a flub you do, before anyone else and be correct. There are 3 flubs. A, P, & no goal flub. The A flub allows a solution to be completed with one more move. A P flub is when the move the person just did prevents all solutions...you better be careful with a p flub. A no goal flub can only occur if the goal setter. When you call a flub you are the challenger. The person who just moved is the mover. The people who aren't the mover or challenger are the siders. In an A flub the challenger has to prove that he is correct. In a P flub the mover has to prove that it still works. If the challenger is correct in an A flub he gets 2 points. The people who sided with him gets one point. In a P flub if a mover is correct he gets 2 points, and the people who side with the mover also gets 2 pts. In a no goal flub, nobody gets any points. To win a round which is 6 games, you have to get more points than everybody else. The reason we were dressed up it was for fun and second it was for judging purposes. Our name was the decade denomanters and we were each from a different decade. Jordan's decade was 1990-to early 2000 so he dressed up and my picture didn't go to well. (remember this was his description:)

2 comments:

vickim said...

Wow, Jordan, I am impressed! I could never figure out how to play that game. Grandma Vicki.

Michelle said...

...ummm what decade is a hot dog from?