About Supermarket Numbers
You know those moments when you’re wandering the aisles, mentally adding up your groceries and wondering if you’ve got enough change? Supermarket Numbers turns that everyday routine into a spirited card-driven challenge. Each player takes on the role of a checkout clerk racing to scan, total, and bag a variety of items just by juggling number cards in hand. It feels a bit like speed-shopping with friends, but instead of filling a cart, you’re stacking sums to match up with product price tags laid out in the center of the table.
On your turn, you draw a card that can either boost your total—say, adding seven to your running sum—or force a competitor to “restock” by discarding part of their hand. The twist comes when you hit special items: some products call for combining three separate cards to hit exactly thirty-five, or subtracting to land on a prime number. It’s a neat mental workout disguised as a race to be the first clerk to ring up all of your customers. If you manage to do it without going over the target price, you collect that product’s token, which translates into points once the deck runs dry.
What really makes the game click is how quickly turns zip by and how a single card swap can pivot the whole table’s leaderboard. One second you’re cruising ahead, and the next, someone slaps down a “zero” card and sends your total tumbling back to square one. There’s just enough luck with the draw to keep things unpredictable, but solid tactics—like holding onto your negative cards until the perfect moment—mean real bragging rights when you emerge victorious.
By the time you shuffle everything back into the box, you’ll be itching to restock the shelves all over again. It’s the kind of lighthearted competition that works whether you’ve got a mathlete in the group or someone who’d usually run in the other direction at the sight of numbers. Short, sweet, and surprisingly tactical, Supermarket Numbers turns a mundane task into an eight-to-ten-minute rush of quick thinking and sly card play.