No.307
Book Cricket
Japanese name: ブッククリケット
Materials
- A thick, expendable book with readable even-numbered page numbers
- A score sheet
- Writing materials
How to play
- Choose who bats first. Start at zero, close the book and put it on your lap or a table. Do not use a treasured or fragile book.
- The batter opens the book anywhere and checks the last digit of the even-numbered page. Add two, four or six points if that digit is 2, 4 or 6.
- In this version, 8 scores no points but is not out. If the opened page has no number, close the book and choose again.
- A final digit of 0 means out. Record the total and swap batters. This version allows one out each; the second batter also starts from zero.
- The second batter wins immediately on exceeding the first total. If out before doing so, the first batter wins; equal scores are a draw. Swap who bats first for the next game.
Ways to adapt
Younger primary: one out, with recording help. Older primary and adults: three outs.