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A long time ago, there was a king in India. The king’s ________ game was chess.

One day, a wise old man ________ to the palace and the king challenged him to ________ game. The king promised the old man. “You can ________ any prize if you win the game.”

The old man ________, “If I win the game, I’d like one grain of ________ for the first square of the chessboard, two for the second, four for the ________, and then double the amount for each of the ________ of the squares.”

“Is that all?” asked the king, “Wouldn’t you like gold or silver ________?”

“No, just rice.” replied the old man.

The king and the old man played the game ________ a long time. Finally, the old man won. ________ the king ordered his men to collect a bag of rice. He________ one grain on the first square, two on the second, and so on. The king quickly realized the ________ even with all the rice in the country, he would ________ not have enough rice to put on all the ________.