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Broad Topics > Using, Applying and Reasoning about Mathematics > Games
Olympic Cards
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Design your own scoring system and play Trumps with these Olympic Sport cards.
Twinkle Twinkle
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 people. Take turns placing a counter on the star. You win when you have completed a line of 3 in your colour.
Jumping Reindeer
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game for 1 person to develop stategy and shape and space awareness. 12 counters are placed on a board. Counters are removed one at a time. The aim is to be left with only 1 counter.
Line of Four
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
A game somewhat similar to 'noughts and crosses' on a much larger space.
Online
Age 7 to 11 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.
Games from Around the World
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Here are a collection of games from around the world to try during the holidays or the last few weeks of term.
Incey Wincey Spider
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
You'll need two dice to play this game against a partner. Will Incey Wincey make it to the top of the drain pipe or the bottom of the drain pipe first?
Calculator Bingo
Age 7 to 11 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.
100 Percent
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
An interactive game for 1 person. You are given a rectangle with 50 squares on it. Roll the dice to get a percentage between 2 and 100. How many squares is this? Keep going until you get 100. . . .
Multiplication Tables - Matching Cards
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Interactive game. Set your own level of challenge, practise your table skills and beat your previous best score.
Gotcha
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. This could be played outside with people instead of counters. Try to trap or escape from your opponent.
Daisy
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. Draw a daisy with at least 5 petals. Shade 1 or 2 petals next to each other. The winner shades the last petal.
Sliding Game
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A shunting puzzle for 1 person. Swop the positions of the counters at the top and bottom of the board.
Scissors, Paper, Rock
Age 5 to 7 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?
Horizontal Vertical
Age 5 to 7 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?
Building Stars
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
An interactive activity for one to experiment with a tricky tessellation
Tac-tickle
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
This is a challenging game of strategy for two players with many interesting variations.
Roundabout
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This is a game for 2 players. Each player has 4 counters each, and wins by blocking their opponent's counters. A good follow-on from two stones.
Traffic Lights
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
The game uses a 3x3 square board. 2 players take turns to play, either placing a red on an empty square, or changing a red to orange, or orange to green. The player who forms 3 of 1 colour in a line. . . .
Primary Advent Calendar 2010
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Advent Calendar 2010 - a mathematical game for every day during the run-up to Christmas.
Play to 37
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
In this game for two players, the idea is to take it in turns to choose 1, 3, 5 or 7. The winner is the first to make the total 37.
Part the Piles
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Try to stop your opponent from being able to split the piles of counters into unequal numbers. Can you find a strategy?
Dicey Operations in Line
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?
Flip Flop - Matching Cards
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game for 1 person to play on screen. Practise your number bonds whilst improving your memory
Board Block Challenge for Two
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Board Block Challenge game for an adult and child. Can you prevent your partner from being able to make a shape?
Totality for Two
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Totality game for an adult and child. Be the first to reach your agreed total.
Subtraction Squares
Age 5 to 11 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?
Incey Wincey Spider for Two
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Incey Wincey Spider game for an adult and child. Will Incey get to the top of the drainpipe?
Counters
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Hover your mouse over the counters to see which ones will be removed. Click to remove them. The winner is the last one to remove a counter. How you can make sure you win?
Four Go
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This challenge is a game for two players. Choose two of the numbers to multiply or divide, then mark your answer on the number line. Can you get four in a row?
Noughts and Crosses
Age 7 to 11 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!
Crocogator
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
A game for two players. You'll need some counters and somewhere to draw a board.
Train for Two
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Train game for an adult and child. Who will be the first to make the train?
Stop or Dare
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
All you need for this game is a pack of cards. While you play the game, think about strategies that will increase your chances of winning.
Spiralling Decimals
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Take turns to place a decimal number on the spiral. Can you get three consecutive numbers?
Spiralling Decimals for Two
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Spiralling Decimals game for an adult and child. Can you get three decimals next to each other on the spiral before your partner?
Matching Time
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Try this matching game which will help you recognise different ways of saying the same time interval.
Learning Mathematics Through Games Series: 4. from Strategy Games
Age 5 to 14
Basic strategy games are particularly suitable as starting points for investigations. Players instinctively try to discover a winning strategy, and usually the best way to do this is to analyse. . . .
Making Maths: Snake Pits
Age 5 to 14 Challenge Level:
A game to make and play based on the number line.
Board Block for Two
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Board Block game for two. Can you stop your partner from being able to make a shape on the board?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.