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Stage 5 Cipher Challenge

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Can you crack these very difficult challenge ciphers? How might you systematise the cracking of unknown ciphers?

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Sorted

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

How can you quickly sort a suit of cards in order from Ace to King?

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Peaches Today, Peaches Tomorrow....

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Whenever a monkey has peaches, he always keeps a fraction of them each day, gives the rest away, and then eats one. How long could he make his peaches last for?

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Ante Up

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Use cunning to work out a strategy to win this game.

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A Long Time at the Till

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Try to solve this very difficult problem and then study our two suggested solutions. How would you use your knowledge to try to solve variants on the original problem?

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Charlie's Delightful Machine

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you develop a strategy to work out the rules controlling each light?

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Adding Machine

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Can you set the logic gates so that this machine can decide how many bulbs have been switched on?

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What's Possible?

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Many numbers can be expressed as the difference of two perfect squares. What do you notice about the numbers you CANNOT make?


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