Make Ten

Swipe, Merge, and Make Ten — the Math Puzzle You Can't Stop Playing

Make Ten is a swipe-and-merge puzzle with a big math heart. The board is a small grid filled with number tiles. Swipe up, down, left, or right and every tile slides as far as it can go. When two tiles with the same number crash into each other, they merge into one tile with their sum: 1 and 1 make 2, 2 and 2 make 4, then 8... and the magic goal at the top of the ladder is the mighty 10. Reach it and the game celebrates — but the board keeps going, so you can chase even bigger numbers and scores!

Every swipe moves the whole board at once, and that's what turns this from simple adding into a real puzzle. New tiles pop in after each move, and if the grid fills up with no merges left, the run is over. Great players think before they swipe: Which direction lines up the most equal pairs? Where do I want my big tiles to live — tucked in a corner, or building a neat chain along one edge? Little strategies like that make the difference between a quick game over and a monster score.

Here's the secret superpower of Make Ten: it's stealthy math practice. Every merge is a doubling fact your child reads and confirms in a split second — over and over, dozens of times a game. Composing small numbers into ten is one of the cornerstones of early math (those famous "make ten" number bonds!), and this game builds exactly that fast, flexible number sense. It's a natural fit for kids from kindergarten through 2nd grade, while older kids happily play it as a pure strategy challenge.

Your score climbs with every merge, and the game tracks your personal best — beat it and you'll get a shiny new-record celebration, plus the chance to submit your score to the online leaderboard and compete with players everywhere. Swipe with arrow keys on a computer or your finger on a tablet; it feels great both ways.

Want more playful number practice? Try Math Monkey, or explore our full collection of math games. The first two tiles are already on the board... which way will you swipe?