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Countdown
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level: 
Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.
The Remainders Game
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
A game that tests your understanding of remainders.
Transformation Game
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Why not challenge a friend to play this transformation game?
Motion Capture
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Explore displacement/time and velocity/time graphs with this mouse motion sensor.
Quadrilaterals Game
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 or more people, based on the traditional card game Rummy. Players aim to make two `tricks', where each trick has to consist of a picture of a shape, a name that describes that shape, and. . . .
Square It
Stage: 1, 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a square.
Nice and Nasty
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...
Strike it Out
Stage: 1, 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
Use your addition and subtraction skills, combined with some strategic thinking, to beat your partner at this game.
Countdown Fractions
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Here is a chance to play a fractions version of the classic Countdown Game.
GOT IT
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
A game for two people, or play online. Given a target number,say 23, and a range of numbers to choose from, say 1-4, players take it in turns to add to the running total to hit their target.
Multiplication Tables - Matching Cards
Stage: 1, 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Interactive game. Set your own level of challenge, practise your table skills and beat your previous best score.
Matching Fractions Decimals Percentages
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
An activity based on the game 'Pelmanism'. Set your own level of challenge and beat your own previous best score.
Cubic Net
Stage: 3, 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
This is an interactive net of a Rubik's cube. Twists of the 3D cube become mixes of the squares on the 2D net. Have a play and see how many scrambles you can undo!
Board Block Challenge
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Choose the size of your pegboard and the shapes you can make. Can you work out the strategies needed to block your opponent?
Board Block
Stage: 1 Challenge Level:
Take it in turns to make a triangle on the pegboard. Can you block your opponent?
Horizontal Vertical
Stage: 1 Challenge Level:
Take it in turns to place a domino on the grid. One to be placed horizontally and the other vertically. Can you make it impossible for your opponent to play?
Sliding Puzzle
Stage: 1, 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
The aim of the game is to slide the green square from the top right hand corner to the bottom left hand corner in the least number of moves.
Calculator Bingo
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game to be played against the computer, or in groups. Pick a 7-digit number. A random digit is generated. What must you subract to remove the digit from your number? the first to zero wins.
Diagonal Dodge
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. Can be played online. One player has 1 red counter, the other has 4 blue. The red counter needs to reach the other side, and the blue needs to trap the red.
Nim-interactive
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Start with any number of counters in any number of piles. 2 players take it in turns to remove any number of counters from a single pile. The winner is the player to take the last counter.
Building Stars
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
An interactive activity for one to experiment with a tricky tessellation
Penta Play
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A shape and space game for 2,3 or 4 players. Be the last person to be able to place a pentomino piece on the playing board. Play with card, or on the computer.
Wild Jack
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 or more players with a pack of cards. Practise your skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to hit the target score.
Khun Phaen Escapes to Freedom
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Slide the pieces to move Khun Phaen past all the guards into the position on the right from which he can escape to freedom.
Criss Cross Quiz
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. Practises subtraction or other maths operations knowledge.
Game of PIG - Sixes
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Players all start with zero points, they take turns to throw the dice as many times as they like, adding the total at each throw to their cumulative total.
Flip Flop - Matching Cards
Stage: 1, 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
A game for 1 person to play on screen. Practise your number bonds whilst improving your memory
Subtraction Squares
Stage: 1 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. Using 2 dice, some counters and a games board, can you form a line of counters from one side of the board to the other?
Counter Roundup
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 1 or 2 people. Use the interactive version, or play with friends. Try to round up as many counters as possible.
Frogs
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
You can solve frogs on the computer, using counters, or acting it out. Start with frogs in a line on one side, and toads on the other, with a space in between. They need to change places.
Put Yourself in a Box
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. Given a board of dots in a grid pattern, players take turns drawing a line by connecting 2 adjacent dots. Your goal is to complete more squares than your opponent.
Pumpkin Patch
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players based on a game from the Somali people of Africa. The first player to pick all the other's pumpkins is the winner.
Down to Nothing
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 or more people. Starting with 100, subratct a number from 1 to 9 from the total. You score for making an odd number, a number ending in 0 or a multiple of 6.
Tac-tickle
Stage: 1 Challenge Level:
This is a challenging game of strategy for two players with many interesting variations.
Wari
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
This is a simple version of an ancient game played all over the world. It is also called Mancala. What tactics will increase your chances of winning?
Scissors, Paper, Rock
Stage: 1 Challenge Level:
Play this well-known game against the computer where each player is equally likely to choose scissors, paper or rock. Why not try the variations too?
Jam
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
This is a Dutch game for two players. It will test your powers of shape and space visualisation
Instant Insanity
Stage: 1 and 3 Challenge Level:
We have a set of four very innocent-looking cubes - each face coloured red, blue, green or white - and they have to be arranged in a row so that all of the four colours appear on each of the. . . .
Noughts and Crosses
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 people that everybody knows. You can play with a friend or online. If you play correctly you never lose!
Fifteen
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Fifteen is a game for two players that you can play anywhere, anytime. Players take it in turns to select a number from 1 to 9. The aim is to choose 3 numbers that total 15.
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