Mummy Math (Learning Resources)

We were moving games from one stash to another this weekend, and Mummy Math came back to the surface.  We got this on a trip up north in 2023.

This is from Learning Resources.  This is from Learning Resources. It has no copyright date, but my guess would put it around 1995.  Their web site is still around and they have come a long way since these old plain cardboard box days, but this particular game is not listed.

It wasn't going take much time to test it out.  It's like a set of flash cards for addition and subtraction, with one or two actual game elements.  Cute, though.

Each player gets a board with a pyramid with a red triangle at top, and they choose a red triangle tile from the box to go in that top space.  The rules said orange, but the actual tiles were 90% red.

After that, the goal is to fill each row of the pyramid with an equation that adds up to your top number.  Each players starts with 7 number tiles and can use any yellow "plus or minus" operator tiles needed to make equations that add up to your top number.

There's a spinner that tells you when you pick a tile or steal a tile, but mostly you just make your equations.  On your turn, you can play any number of tiles, as long as you create valid solutions on each row.  The focus of the game (as a math quiz) is to understand how to group operations together, so for my goal of 14, I could play 9+9-6+2 (because 9+9 = 18, then 18-6 = 12, then 12 plus 2 = 14), or as 9-(2+2)+9.

A quick little exercise.  I just wanted to try it once or twice before donating it.  Didn't think it would take 2-1/2 years to get to it.

Hey, it's not on BoardGameGeek yet.  I enjoy finding things that the community didn't know about yet.