Your challenge in Lucky Numbers is to fill your grid first, but you never know which tiles you'll have to work with!

To set up, take a set of tiles numbered 1-20 for each player in the game, then shuffle all those tiles face down. Each player has a 4x4 grid. To complete the setup, each player takes four tiles at random, then places them in order from bottom to top on the diagonal that runs from top left to bottom right.

During a turn, you either take a face-down tile from the stack or a face-up tile from the table. You can (1) place this tile in an empty space on your grid, (2) swap this tile for a tile already in the grid, or (3) throw this tile face up on the table. However, all tiles in your grid must obey one rule at all times: A tile must have a higher value than any tile directly above it or to its immediate left and a lower value than any tile directly above it or to its immediate left. directly below or to its immediate right. The first to fill their grid with sixteen tiles wins. (If the draw pile is exhausted, then whoever has the most tiles in their grid wins).

You can play the Lucky Numbers tournament style by playing multiple games and having each player start once. The winner of a game receives 2 points, while each loser receives -1 point for each empty space in their grid. After as many games as the number of players, whoever has the most points wins.

The 2020 edition of Lucky Numbers includes a single-player mode with forty puzzles to solve.

• 2 to 4 players
• 20 minutes
• 8 years +