NMBR 9 (Number 9)

Take it to the Next Level in Number 9

A clever yet simple game of puzzling tiles together strategically to get the highest pile and score.

Numbers aren't worth anything in NMBR 9 unless they're off the ground floor and looking down from above. 

Players take numbered tiles and build their own pile/mound following a few basic rules.  Place your tiles well and you can then build your pile higher and earn more points.  Everyone plays the same tiles and the challenge is to have the highest scirong pile at the end.  A great game of logic and strategy, thrown is with a little counting at the end.

The game includes

• twenty cards numbered 0-9 twice
• eighty tiles numbered 0-9
• Rules

After shuffling the deck of cards, draw and reveal the first card. Each player takes a number tile matching the card and places it on the table. With each new card drawn after that, each player takes the appropriate number tile, then adds it to the tiles that they already have in play, with each player building their own arrangement of tiles.

The new tile must touch at least one other tile on the same level along one side of a square. A tile can also be placed on top of two or more other tiles as long as no part of the new tile overhangs the tiles below it; new tiles placed on this same level must touch at least one other tile, while also covering parts of at least two tiles and not overhanging.

Once all the cards have been drawn and the tiles placed, players take turns calculating their score. A tile on the bottom level — the 0th level, if you will — scores 0 points; a tile on the 1st level above this is worth as many points as the number on the tile; a tile on the 2nd level is worth twice the number on the tile; etc. Whoever scores the most points wins!

Players: 1-4

Ages: 8-99