• Numero is a game made for fun. It is suitable for all ages and is a family game
• It helps with mental stimulation and can help the elderly to stimulate their brain activities
• It was only after Numero had been played by many individuals and started to spread to schools that its educational value was realised. This is now a main feature of this great card game.
• Numero provides a level of enjoyment that is shared across generations.
• In its simplest form, it presents real mental challenges to young minds. In between, there is a variety of stages suited to everyone. The common link being that Numero is FUN to play.
• Numero provides the mental gymnastics we all require.
• Numero develops a wide range of mathematical skills, including basic number recognition, basic number facts, speed of recall, combining operations and problem solving (at later stages).
• Numero introduces fractions, percentages, decimals and more complex mathematical concepts.
• Numero can be played at many different levels.
• Numero can be played by six-to-eighty-year-olds, mums and dads, university professors–anyone.

The game is played in developmental stages that allow the players to progress to their level of ability-or the teacher to direct players as a strategy to develop new concepts.

How to Play Numero

Numero is simple to play. Numero, at all levels, has only three rules. These rules govern all levels of play. In junior primary schools Numero is introduced in its simplest form and allows opportunities for students to develop very early number skills, as well as significant early problem-solving skills. Children as young as four have used Numero successfully and the developmental nature of the game allows students to develop to more complex stages at their own rate.

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History of Numero

The creator of Numero®, Rev. Frank Drysdale (1932-2011), was forced into early retirement in 1989 when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. One of Frank’s own remedies to this situation was to keep himself mentally fit by playing mind games, many of which involved cards. He enlisted the help of his young grandchildren to help him pass the time playing different card games.

Numero® was developed as a product of these sessions with his grandchildren, as Frank started with a simple concept and developed it into the game we now call Numero®.

Numero® was demonstrated in public for the first time in 1993 when presented at the Mathematics Association of Western Australia annual conference. The reception it received prompted Frank, and his wife Joan (1936-2018), to print 2000 packs of Numero® which were collated and packaged in Frank’s back shed by a band of willing helpers. Numero® had been born and Frank and Joan Drysdale were kept busy holding workshops and collating and packing Numero®.

When it was clear that Numero® was going to be a success, Frank and Joan gifted the copyright ownership of the game to Alzheimer’s WA. This has ensured that royalties from the sale of all Numero® products are channelled to Alzheimer’s WA, providing money to help fund various dementia-related programs throughout WA and the rest of the world.

In 1998, after about 40000 packs had been sold, it was clear that Numero® had grown to a stage where it was too big to be run as a backyard operation. An international educational publisher, based in their home state of Western Australia, took over the publishing and distribution rights. As expected, Numero® continued to grow in popularity, spreading to more and more countries, and gaining enthusiastic endorsement from educators and players alike.

A new era began in 2018 with publishing and distribution rights returning to the family fold, with their daughter, Julie, regaining control of Numero’s® future, through Independent Education and Training Pty Ltd. This company was formed to look after Numero® going forward and will cover everything Numero® related, including publishing, sales, distribution, marketing, professional development and the interschool competitions run in Western Australia on an annual basis.