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Broad Topics > Thinking Mathematically > Games
Dicey Operations
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?
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.
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...
Countdown
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.
Using Games in the Classroom
Age 7 to 16
Gillian Hatch analyses what goes on when mathematical games are used as a pedagogic device.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fractions and Percentages Card Game
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Can you find the pairs that represent the same amount of money?
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.
Dominoes
Age 7 to 16
Challenge Level
Everthing you have always wanted to do with dominoes! Some of these games are good for practising your mental calculation skills, and some are good for your reasoning skills.
Spiralling Decimals
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
Take turns to place a decimal number on the spiral. Can you get three consecutive numbers?
The Remainders Game
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.
Diagonal Sums Sudoku
Age 7 to 16
Challenge Level
Solve this Sudoku puzzle whose clues are in the form of sums of the numbers which should appear in diagonal opposite cells.
Slippery Snail
Age 7 to 16
Challenge Level
A game for two people, who take turns to move the counters. The player to remove the last counter from the board wins.
Matching Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
Can you match pairs of fractions, decimals and percentages, and beat your previous scores?
First Connect Three
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
Add or subtract the two numbers on the spinners and try to complete a row of three. Are there some numbers that are good to aim for?
Twin Corresponding Sudoku III
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Two sudokus in one. Challenge yourself to make the necessary connections.
One, Three, Five, Seven
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
A game for 2 players. Set out 16 counters in rows of 1,3,5 and 7. Players take turns to remove any number of counters from a row. The player left with the last counter looses.
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.
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.
Sufficient but Not Necessary: Two Eyes and Seki in Go
Age 14 to 18
The game of go has a simple mechanism. This discussion of the principle of two eyes in go has shown that the game does not depend on equally clear-cut concepts.
Twin Corresponding Sudokus II
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Two sudokus in one. Challenge yourself to make the necessary connections.
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?
Got a Strategy for Last Biscuit?
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Can you beat the computer in the challenging strategy game?
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. . . .
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.
Nim-7
Age 5 to 14
Challenge Level
Can you work out how to win this game of Nim? Does it matter if you go first or second?
Patience
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
A simple game of patience which often comes out. Can you explain why?
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?
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. . . .
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?
Nim
Age 14 to 16
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 loser is the player who takes the last counter.
Corresponding Sudokus
Age 11 to 18
This second Sudoku article discusses "Corresponding Sudokus" which are pairs of Sudokus with terms that can be matched using a substitution rule.
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?
Twin Corresponding Sudoku
Age 11 to 18
Challenge Level
This sudoku requires you to have "double vision" - two Sudoku's for the price of one
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.