Numbers

Info About Numbers Game

In Numbers, you stare at a board full of little number blocks. Each block shows a digit like 1, 5, 7, or 8. The goal is simple. You want to remove pairs of blocks. You can tap two blocks if they have the same number or if the two numbers make ten when you add them. So 4 and 6 go together. Two 3s go together. When you clear a pair, those blocks disappear.

At first you only look at neighbors that touch. You check along the row and find pairs that sit side by side. Then you look up and down. If two blocks stand one above the other, and they match or make ten, you can clear them. Every move leaves blank squares behind. Soon the nice clean row turns into a pattern of numbers and empty cells. That is when the game gets more interesting.

Now the game lets you use the gaps. You can remove two numbers if they sit in the same row or column and there are only empty cells between them. No other numbers are allowed in the middle. So you might clear a 2 on the left and an 8 on the right with a long stretch of blanks in between. Kids start to see how one pair opens new lines for the next move. Numbers feels like a calm brain exercise where you search for secret pairs and slowly wipe the board clean.