[Ad- gifted product] Math was never my strong suit growing up, so I am always surprised and excited when I find new ways to help our children understand math! Blobby’s Pizza Math Card Game is an easy to pick up, colorful, monster-filled pizza game where you are learning fractions and percentages. This game has you creating and eating pizzas, through placing slices from your hand onto the table in front of you, or stealing from other player’s pizzas in process.
Blobby’s Pizza Math Card Game is a very simple game to understand. Everyone gets five cards in their hand. On their turn, they can draw a single card, then play a card, so that they hand stays at five cards at the end of their turn. There are a few different types of cards; pizza, monster and actions. Pizza cards come in four different pizza types; cheese, veggie, pepperoni and supreme. They also come in a bunch of different slice combinations, showing the fraction of each pizza that is on the card. You can place down pizzas in front of you, to create a whole pizza and eat it for points. You could, instead of playing a pizza card, play a monster card. Monsters allow you to take a specific percentage of pizza from a combination of other cards from other player’s tables. The monsters are color coded to show which one they are, and when all of the monsters have been played, a player can trigger the end of the game by playing the Blobby card!
Action cards on the other hand are actions. They require everyone to switch hands or to reverse the order that everyone plays. This card feels more board-game-related then learning relating, tying the game back into tabletop games your children might know and love. There is a bonus card that you can incorporate into your game, which gives you a percentage of tax and tip that you need to charge your customers at the end of the game, but the rules state you can play without them for ease, so we haven’t used them yet. Robin and Amelia were really excited about Blobby’s Pizza Math Card Game because of the cute pizza and colorful monsters!
Robin doesn’t know fractions as well as Amelia, due to her age, but both found the game easy to pick up and play. The cards themselves have the number of slices, the fraction of slices and the percentages of the slices on the pizza, giving lots of options for learning and associating things like 6/12 being 50%, etc. These visual learning queues are really well thought through and help when it comes to casual learning. Creating and eating the same types of pizzas isn’t a hard task, and stealing your friends pizza was something Robin found to be super funny.
At the end of the game, you can use a provided ticket, meant to look like a waitress ticket, to calculate how much money you made from the pizzas that you were able to eat! This cute ending of the game is very fun. Our family played together a few times (apart from Kai, who’s too much of a teen to like pizza or monsters) and really enjoyed our time. It’s great to have a board game that leans towards casual learning on our shelves.
Learning math can become fun with such games. Children will be very excited now.
I do love games like this as feel you learn so much without realising while having fun
Me and my cousin will surely love to play this Blobby’s Pizza Math Card Game. We loved playing board games so much.
I am all for games that are also educational. I totally would have tried this game when my kiddos were younger
Super love the game, it is awesome! I love games that are fun and educational at the same time, super cool.
Blobby’s Pizza Math Card Game sounds like a fun and engaging game that combines math skills with pizza-themed gameplay. The clear and concise explanation of how the game works makes it easy for anyone to understand and enjoy. The inclusion of different card types like pizza, monsters, and actions adds depth to the game.
I love this so much! I feel like I would have had a much easier time with math if I’d had something to make it fun like this.
I absolutely HATED math when I was a kid. Full disclosure, I’m still not a fan. LOL. I think that might have been different if I’d had something to make it fun. This looks like a great one.
I think any way to gamify learning is a win, I know I’d have been way more engaged with something like this. Plus who doesn’t love pizza related games x
This sounds like such a fun game. It’s not one I’ve come across before. I love that it’s pizza themed and that the game helps to teach children fractions and percentages.
What a fun way to get in family time! Sounds like a fun game and it’s great to incorporate learning into it too!
I love games that are both fun and educational. This looks like a fun game, thanks for sharing this.
This is a really fun card game and one I could try for myself! Fractions wasn’t my specialty as a child or now!
My nephew loves playing educational games. This one looks really good to gift him. Blobby’s Pizza Math Card Game looks like an engaging game that combines math skills with pizza-themed gameplay.