Exact Change

Exact Change

In the box: 110 cards

 

Exact Change card game is the winner of multiple awards: Dr. Toy's 100 Best, iParenting Media Award, Creative Child Magazine Seal of Excellence, The National Parenting Center Seal of Approval.

 

This is a card only game, no play money. Each card has a colored border and an image of actual money. It plays a little like UNO as you will be matching border color or money.

 

Object:

Accumulate $2 in the bank, which may or may not take more than one hand.

 

Set up:

Shuffle the cards. Deal seven cards to each player and put the rest of the deck face down on the table. Players hold their cards in their hand, not letting others see them. Turn up one card.

 

Play:

Players take turns. On a turn a player must look at the turned up card in the middle and do one of these:

• Match the color of the card (any coin value, just match the color)
• Match the coin (any color, just match the coin value)
• Play multiple cards and make exact change for the card (any color mix). For example, if a quarter is played, you can play two dimes and a nickel, or you could play a dime, two nickels, and five pennies. The Loose Change cards have odd values on them (11 cents, 56 cents, $1.01) and can be used to help you make exact change. 
• Play a specialty card:
• Wild card - Can be used for any coin value. 
• Bank withdrawal card -  Choose another player to pick one of your cards and add it to his hand
• Collect Tax card -  All players, except the one who played the card, must draw a card from the draw pile

If you cannot play, you must pick cards, and keep picking until you are able to play.When the hand is over the winner of the hand chooses one person, adds up the values of all the cards in his hand, and the winner puts that amount into his "bank" (keep score).

To see a list of games with money, click here.

Try this:

• Skip the color matching, just make exact change.
• Take out all the word cards and play without them.
• Have a pile of real change handy and after making change with the cards, make the same change with real coins.
• Work on making change, learning coins, visual discrimination, manual dexterity, shuffling/dealing/fanning cards
  

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