Product Game Rules

Read the following rules before you begin playing The Product Game.

1. Player 1 puts a paper clip on a number in the factor list. No square on the product grid is marked with Player 1’s color because only one factor has been marked; it takes two factors to make a product.

2. Player 2 puts the other paper clip on any number in the factor list (including the same number marked by Player 1) and then shades or covers the product of the two factors on the product grid.

3. Player 1 moves either one of the paper clips to another number and then shades or covers the new product.

4. Each player, in turn, moves a paper clip and marks a product. If a product is already marked, the player does not get a mark for that turn. The winner is the first player to mark four squares in a row — up and down, across, or diagonally.