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Find Little Nimrod This game teaches students to find locations on the four-quadrant coordinate plane using ordered pairs. It also gives practice using the compass rose. Download Game sheet with rules and one grid (pdf file -- requires Acrobat Reader) Download double grid (pdf file) Your Job Nimrod has a plan. Nimrod is hiding. Nimrod must be found! To find him you must call out and locate points on the coordinate grid, and use compass direction clues. How to Play · Choose a leader. (Others will get turns later.) · The leader decides where Nimrod is hiding and writes down his coordinates on a piece of paper which is hidden during the game. · Players take turns guessing where Nimrod is hiding, calling out ordered pairs, such as (2, ­6). · For each guess the leader gives a clue. If Nimrod is hiding at (­ 5, 7) and the guess is (2, ­ 6), the clue would be "Go Northwest." · Players keep a list of guesses and clues. · The leader should mark each guess on the grid.