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DICE AND STACK

For this activity you will need dice.

• Children work in groups of 4 - 6. Each child has their 6
bricks in the middle of the play area. The group must
also have 2 dice.
• Children take turns to throw the two dice and then place
2 bricks on a communal build. The sum of the numbers
shown on the dice must be the number of studs that are
left open on the building stack.
• The game begins with two bricks as a starting level -
place next to each other.
• Child No. 1 throws the dice and it lands on 4 and 3. This
number (7) indicates the number of studs that must be
left open when placing bricks onto the starting level.
• Only 2 bricks may be used on each level - the child
takes 2 bricks and adds a new level to the starting bricks
leaving 7 studs open.

• The next child throws the dice and it lands on,
e.g. 2 and 6. (8) This child takes another 2
bricks from the pile and adds another level to
the stack and leaves 8 studs open.
• With each turn, the child will only cover studs
on the most recently added level. The stack
should get higher with each turn.
• The children will have to think creatively at
times.
• If a child cannot cover the studs correctly then
he / she is out and the game continues with the
remaining children.
• When building each level, the children must
try to keep the stack balanced. (This will not
always be possible.)
• Instead of adding the two numbers on the dice,
children could subtract the smaller number from
the bigger number.

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