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Broad Topics > Using, Applying and Reasoning about Mathematics > Games
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.
Countdown
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.
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...
Wallpaper Sudoku
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
A Sudoku that uses transformations as supporting clues.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Matching Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
An activity based on the game 'Pelmanism'. Set your own level of challenge and beat your own previous best score.
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.
Twin Corresponding Sudoku III
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Two sudokus in one. Challenge yourself to make the necessary connections.
Dicey Operations
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?
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
Age 11 to 18 Challenge Level:
This sudoku requires you to have "double vision" - two Sudoku's for the price of one
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?
Have You Got It?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?
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.
Pole Star Sudoku
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
A Sudoku based on clues that give the differences between adjacent cells.
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.
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.
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. . . .
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.
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.
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. . . .
Patience
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A simple game of patience which often comes out. Can you explain why?
Diamond Collector
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Collect as many diamonds as you can by drawing three straight lines.
Making Maths: Snake Pits
Age 5 to 14 Challenge Level:
A game to make and play based on the number line.
Quadrilaterals Game
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 or more people, based on the traditional card game Rummy. Players aim to make two `tricks', where each trick has to consist of a picture of a shape, a name that describes that shape, and. . . .
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.
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.
Tangram Pictures
Age 5 to 14 Challenge Level:
Use the tangram pieces to make our pictures, or to design some of your own!
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?
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?
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?
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.
Property Chart
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A game in which players take it in turns to try to draw quadrilaterals (or triangles) with particular properties. Is it possible to fill the game grid?
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.
Wari
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
This is a simple version of an ancient game played all over the world. It is also called Mancala. What tactics will increase your chances of winning?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.