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Calculate!

Pantheon Books · 1979
2–430 min0+ yrs1.0/5 complexity6.6 BGG53KidsStrategy
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Contains six paper-and-pencil games with various themes, meant to be played while assisted by eight-digit, "four-banger" calculators (still a relative novelty when the book was published).

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Contains six paper-and-pencil games with various themes, meant to be played while assisted by eight-digit, "four-banger" calculators (still a relative novelty when the book was published). The games include Run for President, Target Number, Invasion, Away Across, Travels, and High Finance.

Sometimes the calculator serves as a dice-alternative for producing random numbers (selected digits are read from the display), other times it just handles manipulating large numbers

The bulk of the book consists of perforated pages to tear out and use to record gameplay progress.

Part of a series of five paper-and-pencil game books by Sid Sackson, including Beyond Competition, Beyond Solitaire, Games of Art, Beyond Words, and Calculate!.

game anatomy
Complexity1.0 / 5
BGG rating6.6 / 10
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KidsStrategy
Play time
30 min
Players
2–4
Recommended age
0+ yrs
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Calculate! is played by 2–4 players.
Q5How long does a game of Calculate! take?
A game of Calculate! takes about 30 minutes. (The first game doesn't count. It never counts.)
Q6What age is Calculate! for?
Calculate! is recommended from age 0.
Q7How complex is Calculate!?
Calculate! has a BoardGameGeek complexity of 1.0 out of 5.
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