
Two stones
This game is known as Pong hau k'i in China and Ou-moul-ko-no in Korea. Why not challenge a friend to play it with you?

More less is more
In each of these games, you will need a little bit of luck and your knowledge of place value to develop a winning strategy.

Factors and multiples game
A game in which players take it in turns to choose a number. Can you block your opponent?

Twinkle twinkle

Dicey operations
In these addition and subtraction games, you'll need to think strategically to get closest to the target.


Air nets

Matching fractions, decimals and percentages
Can you match pairs of fractions, decimals and percentages, and beat your previous scores?

Fifteen
Can you spot the similarities between this game and other games you know? The aim is to choose 3 numbers that total 15.


Prime magic

Colour in the square

Dominoes

Got it
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.

Remainders
I'm thinking of a number. My number is both a multiple of 5 and a multiple of 6. What could my number be?

Pentanim

Low go

Tea cups
Place the 16 different combinations of cup/saucer in this 4 by 4 arrangement so that no row or column contains more than one cup or saucer of the same colour.

Eight dominoes

Two and two
How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.

Domino magic rectangle
An ordinary set of dominoes can be laid out as a 7 by 4 magic rectangle in which all the spots in all the columns add to 24, while those in the rows add to 42. Try it! Now try the magic square...



Gabriel's problem
Gabriel multiplied together some numbers and then erased them. Can you figure out where each number was?

Cinema problem
A cinema has 100 seats. How can ticket sales make £100 for these different combinations of ticket prices?

Shady symmetry
How many different symmetrical shapes can you make by shading triangles or squares?

Special numbers
My two digit number is special because adding the sum of its digits to the product of its digits gives me my original number. What could my number be?

Square it
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.

Consecutive seven
Can you arrange these numbers into 7 subsets, each of three numbers, so that when the numbers in each are added together, they make seven consecutive numbers?

Substitution cipher
Find the frequency distribution for ordinary English, and use it to help you crack the code.

Take ten sticks

Factors and multiples puzzle
Using your knowledge of the properties of numbers, can you fill all the squares on the board?

Cayley


Sociable cards
Move your counters through this snake of cards and see how far you can go. Are you surprised by where you end up?

What numbers can we make?
Imagine we have four bags containing a large number of 1s, 4s, 7s and 10s. What numbers can we make?

American billions
Play the divisibility game to create numbers in which the first two digits make a number divisible by 2, the first three digits make a number divisible by 3...

Olympic records
Can you deduce which Olympic athletics events are represented by the graphs?

Odds, evens and more evens
Alison, Bernard and Charlie have been exploring sequences of odd and even numbers, which raise some intriguing questions...

Magic letters
Charlie has made a Magic V. Can you use his example to make some more? And how about Magic Ls, Ns and Ws?

Can they be equal?
Can you find rectangles where the value of the area is the same as the value of the perimeter?

Olympic measures
These Olympic quantities have been jumbled up! Can you put them back together again?

Multiples Sudoku
Each clue in this Sudoku is the product of the two numbers in adjacent cells.

Sticky numbers
Can you arrange the numbers 1 to 17 in a row so that each adjacent pair adds up to a square number?

What's it worth?
There are lots of different methods to find out what the shapes are worth - how many can you find?



Frogs
How many moves does it take to swap over some red and blue frogs? Do you have a method?


Colourful cube
A colourful cube is made from little red and yellow cubes. But can you work out how many of each?

Reflecting squarely
In how many ways can you fit all three pieces together to make shapes with line symmetry?


Take three from five
Caroline and James pick sets of five numbers. Charlie tries to find three that add together to make a multiple of three. Can they stop him?


Last biscuit
Can you find a strategy that ensures you get to take the last biscuit in this game?

Peaches today, peaches tomorrow...
A monkey with peaches, keeps a fraction of them each day, gives the rest away, and then eats one. How long can his peaches last?

Squares in rectangles
A 2 by 3 rectangle contains 8 squares and a 3 by 4 rectangle contains 20 squares. What size rectangle(s) contain(s) exactly 100 squares? Can you find them all?

Product Sudoku
The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.

Where can we visit?
Charlie and Abi put a counter on 42. They wondered if they could visit all the other numbers on their 1-100 board, moving the counter using just these two operations: x2 and -5. What do you think?

Route to infinity
Can you describe this route to infinity? Where will the arrows take you next?

Always a multiple?
Think of a two digit number, reverse the digits, and add the numbers together. Something special happens...

3388
Using some or all of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and using the digits 3, 3, 8 and 8 each once and only once make an expression equal to 24.


Opposite vertices
Can you recreate squares and rhombuses if you are only given a side or a diagonal?

Connect three
In this game the winner is the first to complete a row of three. Are some squares easier to land on than others?

Crossing the bridge
Four friends must cross a bridge. How can they all cross it in just 17 minutes?

Zin obelisk

Marbles in a box
How many winning lines can you make in a three-dimensional version of noughts and crosses?

1 step 2 step
Liam's house has a staircase with 12 steps. He can go down the steps one at a time or two at time. In how many different ways can Liam go down the 12 steps?

Making rectangles, making squares

Tower of Hanoi
The Tower of Hanoi is an ancient mathematical challenge. Working on the building blocks may help you to explain the patterns you notice.


Fibonacci surprises
Play around with the Fibonacci sequence and discover some surprising results!

Bow tie

One, three, five, seven

Tourism
If you can copy a network without lifting your pen off the paper and without drawing any line twice, then it is traversable. Decide which of these diagrams are traversable.

Cuboids
Can you find a cuboid that has a surface area of exactly 100 square units. Is there more than one? Can you find them all?

Instant insanity
Given the nets of 4 cubes with the faces coloured in 4 colours, build a tower so that on each vertical wall no colour is repeated, that is all 4 colours appear.

Times right

Soma - so good

Nine colours
Can you use small coloured cubes to make a 3 by 3 by 3 cube so that each face of the bigger cube contains one of each colour?
