The 24 Game is an arithmetical card game in which the object is to find a way to manipulate four integers so that the end result is 24. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division, and sometimes other operations, may be used to make four digits from one to nine equal 24. For example, card with the numbers 4,7,8,8, a possible solution is the following: (7-(8/8))*4=24.
The game has been played in Shanghai since the 1960s, using ordinary playing cards. Robert Sun commercialised the game and copyrighted it in 1988, introducing dedicated game cards bearing four numbers each, and sold it through his company, Easton, Pennsylvania-based Suntex International Inc. There are nine official editions of Suntex's 24 Game. A tournament-style competition, referred to as the 24 Challenge, is based on the 24 game.
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“My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly say “I do not play bridge” is allowed to go over in the corner and run the pianola by himself, while the poor neophyte, no matter how much he may protest that he isn’t “at all a good player, in fact I’m perfectly rotten,” is never believed, but dragged into a game where it is discovered, too late, that he spoke the truth.”
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