Materials Needed:
• deck of standard playing cards
• BLM: Three in a Row (16.0K)

1. Print BLM: Three in Row.

2. Use all aces through 9s in a standard deck of cards. The aces count as 1s. Red cards are negative, and black cards are positive.

3. Deal eight cards to each player. Place the remainder face down to be used as a draw pile.

4. The first player selects two cards from his or her hand to represent the coordinates of a point on the Cartesian grid.

• This point is marked on the grid using an initial or other symbol to identify the player.
• The two cards are placed in a discard pile, and the player draws two new cards.

5. Play moves clockwise. The next player takes a turn by playing a card and placing that number on the coordinate grid, then picking up a replacement card from the draw pile.

6. The first player to plot three points along the same line is the winner.

7. When all of the cards in the draw pile have been drawn, shuffle the discard pile and use it as the draw pile.

Notes:
a) Once a grid point is selected, no other player may select the same point.
b) It is not legal to place a point on one of the axes.