# Does the game I'm looking for exist? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 31, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-game-im-looking-for-exist/498283 "2009-05-31T21:04:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Blue\_Mood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@Blue\_Mood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Mood)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-game-im-looking-for-exist/498283/1 "2009-05-31T21:04:31Z")
My daughter has a Webkinz account, and there’s a game on there called KinzPost Sorter that I really enjoy. As many of their games are based on others, I’m hoping there’s an online counterpart somewhere so I can play at whim. The game is addition in disguise. There’s a string of numbers on a conveyor belt, and you have to pick these up and combine them to make target sums. It looks like [this](http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/YPE7UTaQC8pBmJXApFF3_g?authkey=Gv1sRgCKPHp6yKp-T4OA&feat=directlink). The five yellow boxes at the top are the goals, and the column of boxes on the right is the discard pile. You pick up a box at a time and put it into whichever column you like in order to reach the targets. Does anybody know where I can play this online (or download)? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-game-im-looking-for-exist/498283/2 "2009-06-01T11:53:10Z")
Just a bump for ya. Googling “math games for kids” came up with waaaaaay too many hits for me to wade thru them all, but I would think you could find an equivalent game if you can refine the search terms, or if you have the time to go thru hits looking. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Mood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@Blue\_Mood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Mood)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-game-im-looking-for-exist/498283/3 "2009-06-02T16:53:38Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Just a bump for ya. Thanks. And I have tried googling it, but as you point out the search terms are too broad for me to have a chance to find it that way I think. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-game-im-looking-for-exist/498283/4 "2009-06-02T18:04:27Z")
[Mathris](http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/puzzle_games/games_k_n/mathtris.html) seems similar. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-game-im-looking-for-exist/498283/5 "2009-06-03T00:53:37Z")
with just one screen capture, it is hard to understand what is going on. [Can You Make Da Numba?](http://www.miniclip.com/games/da-numba/en/) I think might be a close match. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-game-im-looking-for-exist/498283/6 "2009-06-03T00:59:51Z")
And of course, a similar concept is built into Blackjack / 21 games. Pogo has [Turbo 21](http://www.pogo.com/games/turbo) for free. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-game-im-looking-for-exist/498283/7 "2009-06-03T12:18:34Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > with just one screen capture, it is hard to understand what is going on. > > [Can You Make Da Numba?](http://www.miniclip.com/games/da-numba/en/) > > I think might be a close match. No, that’s a [SameGame](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SameGame) clone. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-game-im-looking-for-exist/498283/8 "2009-06-03T20:43:01Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > No, that’s a [SameGame](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SameGame) clone. Did you even play Da Numba? Da numba is not Same game, you can click any blocks you want, it doesn’t have to have a chain of same colored blocks. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-game-im-looking-for-exist/498283/9 "2009-06-04T02:33:43Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > Did you even play Da Numba? Da numba is not Same game, you can click any blocks you want, it doesn’t have to have a chain of same colored blocks. I don’t know what happened but when I looked at the rules from work, it showed a simple number-matching game. As in one has to click groups of the same number.