Race to the North Pole: Christmas Board Game, Grades 2-5

Roll, answer, and race your friends to the North Pole in this print-and-play Christmas board game for Grades 2-5. Two to four players race across a snowy forty-space board, and every turn is a question: land on an even plain space and draw a math card, land on an odd plain space and draw a Christmas trivia card. Answer correctly and stay put; answer wrong and slide back one space. An exact roll is needed to reach space 40, the North Pole. Watch out for Snowstorms that make you miss a turn, ride a Sleigh Ride to roll again, take the Candy Cane Shortcut forward three spaces, and mind the Present Drop, Gingerbread House, Icy Patch, and Reindeer Dash. If a move lands on another special space, that space's rule applies too, so chains are covered.

The board prints on four sheets that tile together with matching join letters, A, B, C, and D, so the finished board tapes together perfectly. START is space 1 at the bottom left and FINISH is space 40 at the top left, and every space has a direction arrow pointing to the next space, including across the sheet joins. Twenty-four math cards cover addition, subtraction, multiplication, simple division, and money, with easier problems for Grade 2 and harder ones for Grades 3-5. Twenty-four trivia cards cover checked Christmas facts, from Rudolph's reindeer to the first Christmas card. Four cut-out player tokens, Star, Tree, Snowman, and Reindeer, and a one-to-six spinner for players without a die are included, along with a turn tracker for fourteen turns with a winner and most-correct-answers record. A teacher guide explains the game, who can play, what is needed, and step-by-step board assembly. Rules cover setup, how to play, and how to win in about twenty to thirty minutes. A special-spaces table lists all eight special spaces with their numbers and effects, plus the card rules. Answers live only on page 19, so students cannot peek at the cards. The pack closes with a North Pole Race Champion certificate and five more ways to play, including team race, math-only and trivia-only versions, and a class tournament.