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Broad Topics > Thinking Mathematically > Games
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.
Snail Trails
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
This is a game for two players. You will need some small-square grid paper, a die and two felt-tip pens or highlighters. Players take turns to roll the die, then move that number of squares in. . . .
Football World Cup Simulation
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
A maths-based Football World Cup simulation for teachers and students to use.
Game of PIG - Sixes
Age 7 to 18 Challenge Level:
Can you beat Piggy in this simple dice game? Can you figure out Piggy's strategy, and is there a better one?
White Box
Age 7 to 18 Challenge Level:
This game challenges you to locate hidden triangles in The White Box by firing rays and observing where the rays exit the Box.
Squayles
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. Given an arrangement of matchsticks, players take it is turns to remove a matchstick, along with all of the matchsticks that touch it.
Learning Mathematics Through Games Series: 1. Why Games?
Age 5 to 14
This article supplies teachers with information that may be useful in better understanding the nature of games and their role in teaching and learning mathematics.
Learning Mathematics Through Games Series: 2.types of Games
Age 5 to 14
This article, the second in the series, looks at some different types of games and the sort of mathematical thinking they can develop.
Got a Strategy for Last Biscuit?
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you beat the computer in the challenging strategy game?
Patience
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A simple game of patience which often comes out. Can you explain why?
Using Games in the Classroom
Age 7 to 16
Gillian Hatch analyses what goes on when mathematical games are used as a pedagogic device.
Going First
Age 14 to 18
This article shows how abstract thinking and a little number theory throw light on the scoring in the game Go.
Fifteen
Age 7 to 14 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.
Low Go
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. Take turns to place a counter so that it occupies one of the lowest possible positions in the grid. The first player to complete a line of 4 wins.
18 Hole Light Golf
Age 5 to 16 Challenge Level:
The computer starts with all the lights off, but then clicks 3, 4 or 5 times at random, leaving some lights on. Can you switch them off again?
Statement Snap
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
You'll need to know your number properties to win a game of Statement Snap...
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?
Sliding Puzzle
Age 11 to 16 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.
Mulinello Quadrupio
Age 5 to 18
A game from Italy. Play with a friend and see if you can be the first to get five pieces in a line.
Nice or Nasty for Two
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Some Games That May Be Nice or Nasty for an adult and child. Use your knowledge of place value to beat your opponent.
Two Stones
Age 5 to 18
This game is known as Pong hau k'i in China and Ou-moul-ko-no in Korea. Find a friend to play or try the interactive version online.
Winning Lines
Age 7 to 16
An article for teachers and pupils that encourages you to look at the mathematical properties of similar games.
Behind the Rules of Go
Age 14 to 18
This article explains the use of the idea of connectedness in networks, in two different ways, to bring into focus the basics of the game of Go, namely capture and territory.
Sprouts Explained
Age 7 to 18
This article invites you to get familiar with a strategic game called "sprouts". The game is simple enough for younger children to understand, and has also provided experienced mathematicians with. . . .
Nim-7 for Two
Age 5 to 14 Challenge Level:
Nim-7 game for an adult and child. Who will be the one to take the last counter?
Turnablock
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
A simple game for 2 players invented by John Conway. It is played on a 3x3 square board with 9 counters that are black on one side and white on the other.
Have You Got It?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?
Latin Lilies
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
Have a go at this game which has been inspired by the Big Internet Math-Off 2019. Can you gain more columns of lily pads than your opponent?
Square It
Age 11 to 16 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.
Making Maths: Snake Pits
Age 5 to 14 Challenge Level:
A game to make and play based on the number line.
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. . . .
Twin Corresponding Sudokus II
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Two sudokus in one. Challenge yourself to make the necessary connections.
Tangram Pictures
Age 5 to 14 Challenge Level:
Use the tangram pieces to make our pictures, or to design some of your own!
Dicey Operations
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?
Nice or Nasty
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...
Twin Corresponding Sudoku III
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Two sudokus in one. Challenge yourself to make the necessary connections.
The Remainders Game
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.
Quadruple Clue Sudoku
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Four numbers on an intersection that need to be placed in the surrounding cells. That is all you need to know to solve this sudoku.
Diamond Collector
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Collect as many diamonds as you can by drawing three straight lines.
Spiralling Decimals
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Take turns to place a decimal number on the spiral. Can you get three consecutive numbers?
Got it for Two
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Got It game for an adult and child. How can you play so that you know you will always win?
Factors and Multiples Game for Two
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Factors and Multiples game for an adult and child. How can you make sure you win this game?
Quadrilaterals Game
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 or more people, based on the traditional card game Rummy.
Seasonal Twin Sudokus
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
This pair of linked Sudokus matches letters with numbers and hides a seasonal greeting. Can you find it?
Charlie's Delightful Machine
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you develop a strategy to work out the rules controlling each light?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.