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Nine Colours
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level: 
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?
Factors and Multiples Game
Stage: 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
A game in which players take it in turns to choose a number. Can you block your opponent?
First Connect Three
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
The idea of this game is to add or subtract the two numbers on the dice and cover the result on the grid, trying to get a line of three. Are there some numbers that are good to aim for?
Conway's Chequerboard Army
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Here is a solitaire type environment for you to experiment with. Which targets can you reach?
Icosian Game
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
This problem is about investigating whether it is possible to start at one vertex of a platonic solid and visit every other vertex once only returning to the vertex you started at.
When Will You Pay Me? Say the Bells of Old Bailey
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Use the interactivity to play two of the bells in a pattern. How do you know when it is your turn to ring, and how do you know which bell to ring?
You Owe Me Five Farthings, Say the Bells of St Martin's
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Use the interactivity to listen to the bells ringing a pattern. Now it's your turn! Play one of the bells yourself. How do you know when it is your turn to ring?
Cogs
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
A and B are two interlocking cogwheels having p teeth and q teeth respectively. One tooth on B is painted red. Find the values of p and q for which the red tooth on B contacts every gap on the. . . .
Instant Insanity
Stage: 3, 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
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.
Overlaid
Stage: 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Overlaying pentominoes can produce some effective patterns. Why not use LOGO to try out some of the ideas suggested here?
Matching Fractions, Decimals and 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.
Multiplication Tables - Matching Cards
Stage: 1, 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
Interactive game. Set your own level of challenge, practise your table skills and beat your previous best score.
Semi-regular Tessellations
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Semi-regular tessellations combine two or more different regular polygons to fill the plane. Can you find all the semi-regular tessellations?
Muggles Magic
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
You can move the 4 pieces of the jigsaw and fit them into both outlines. Explain what has happened to the missing one unit of area.
Diamond Mine
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Practise your diamond mining skills and your x,y coordination in this homage to Pacman.
Teddy Town
Stage: 1, 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
There are nine teddies in Teddy Town - three red, three blue and three yellow. There are also nine houses, three of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?
Fifteen
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
Can you spot the similarities between this game and other games you know? The aim is to choose 3 numbers that total 15.
Online
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players that can be played online. Players take it in turns to select a word from the 9 words given. The aim is to select all the occurrences of the same letter.
Bow Tie
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Show how this pentagonal tile can be used to tile the plane and describe the transformations which map this pentagon to its images in the tiling.
Rolling Around
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
A circle rolls around the outside edge of a square so that its circumference always touches the edge of the square. Can you describe the locus of the centre of the circle?
Picturing Triangular Numbers
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Triangular numbers can be represented by a triangular array of squares. What do you notice about the sum of identical triangle numbers?
Simple Counting Machine
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Can you set the logic gates so that the number of bulbs which are on is the same as the number of switches which are on?
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.
Odds and Evens
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Is this a fair game? How many ways are there of creating a fair game by adding odd and even numbers?
Cubic Net
Stage: 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!
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.
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.
Inside Out
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
There are 27 small cubes in a 3 x 3 x 3 cube, 54 faces being visible at any one time. Is it possible to reorganise these cubes so that by dipping the large cube into a pot of paint three times you. . . .
Isosceles Triangles
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Draw some isosceles triangles with an area of $9$cm$^2$ and a vertex at (20,20). If all the vertices must have whole number coordinates, how many is it possible to draw?
First Connect Three for Two
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
First Connect Three game for an adult and child. Use the dice numbers and either addition or subtraction to get three numbers in a straight line.
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
Substitution Cipher
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Find the frequency distribution for ordinary English, and use it to help you crack the code.
Flippin' Discs
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Identical discs are flipped in the air. You win if all of the faces show the same colour. Can you calculate the probability of winning with n discs?
Game of PIG - Sixes
Stage: 2, 3, 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
Can you beat Piggy in this simple dice game? Can you figure out Piggy's strategy, and is there a better one?
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.
Archery
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Imagine picking up a bow and some arrows and attempting to hit the target a few times. Can you work out the settings for the sight that give you the best chance of gaining a high score?
Top Coach
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Carry out some time trials and gather some data to help you decide on the best training regime for your rowing crew.
Jam
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
To avoid losing think of another very well known game where the patterns of play are similar.
Balancing 3
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Mo has left, but Meg is still experimenting. Use the interactivity to help you find out how she can alter her pouch of marbles and still keep the two pouches balanced.
Cosy Corner
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Six balls of various colours are randomly shaken into a trianglular arrangement. What is the probability of having at least one red in the corner?
Have You Got It?
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?
Got a Strategy for Last Biscuit?
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Can you beat the computer in the challenging strategy game?
A Tilted Square
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
The opposite vertices of a square have coordinates (a,b) and (c,d). What are the coordinates of the other vertices?
Tilting Triangles
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
A right-angled isosceles triangle is rotated about the centre point of a square. What can you say about the area of the part of the square covered by the triangle as it rotates?
Balancing 1
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Meg and Mo need to hang their marbles so that they balance. Use the interactivity to experiment and find out what they need to do.
Disappearing Square
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Do you know how to find the area of a triangle? You can count the squares. What happens if we turn the triangle on end? Press the button and see. Try counting the number of units in the triangle now. . . .
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.