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### LOGO Challenge - Pentagram Pylons

##### Age 11 to 18Challenge Level

Pentagram Pylons - can you elegantly recreate them? Or, the European flag in LOGO - what poses the greater problem?

### LOGO Challenge - Sequences and Pentagrams

##### Age 11 to 18Challenge Level

Explore this how this program produces the sequences it does. What are you controlling when you change the values of the variables?

### Colour Islands Sudoku 2

##### Age 11 to 18Challenge Level

In this Sudoku, there are three coloured "islands" in the 9x9 grid. Within each "island" EVERY group of nine cells that form a 3x3 square must contain the numbers 1 through 9.

### 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.

### I've Submitted a Solution - What Next?

##### Age 5 to 18

In this article, the NRICH team describe the process of selecting solutions for publication on the site.

### Twin Chute-swapping Sudoku

##### Age 14 to 18Challenge Level

A pair of Sudokus with lots in common. In fact they are the same problem but rearranged. Can you find how they relate to solve them both?

### Twin Corresponding Sudoku

##### Age 11 to 18Challenge Level

This sudoku requires you to have "double vision" - two Sudoku's for the price of one

### Constellation Sudoku

##### Age 14 to 18Challenge Level

Special clue numbers related to the difference between numbers in two adjacent cells and values of the stars in the "constellation" make this a doubly interesting problem.

### LOGO Challenge - Following On

##### Age 11 to 18Challenge Level

Remember that you want someone following behind you to see where you went. Can yo work out how these patterns were created and recreate them?

### Pole Star Sudoku

##### Age 14 to 18Challenge Level

A Sudoku based on clues that give the differences between adjacent cells.

### Olympic Magic

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

in how many ways can you place the numbers 1, 2, 3 … 9 in the nine regions of the Olympic Emblem (5 overlapping circles) so that the amount in each ring is the same?

### Magic Caterpillars

##### Age 14 to 18Challenge Level

Label the joints and legs of these graph theory caterpillars so that the vertex sums are all equal.

### Instant Insanity

##### Age 11 to 18Challenge 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.

### Difference Dynamics

##### Age 14 to 18Challenge Level

Take three whole numbers. The differences between them give you three new numbers. Find the differences between the new numbers and keep repeating this. What happens?

### LOGO Challenge - the Logic of LOGO

##### Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

Just four procedures were used to produce a design. How was it done? Can you be systematic and elegant so that someone can follow your logic?

### Magic W

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

Find all the ways of placing the numbers 1 to 9 on a W shape, with 3 numbers on each leg, so that each set of 3 numbers has the same total.

### Advent Calendar 2011 - Secondary

##### Age 11 to 18Challenge Level

Advent Calendar 2011 - a mathematical activity for each day during the run-up to Christmas.

### LOGO Challenge - Triangles-squares-stars

##### Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

Can you recreate these designs? What are the basic units? What movement is required between each unit? Some elegant use of procedures will help - variables not essential.

### All-variables Sudoku

##### Age 11 to 18Challenge Level

The challenge is to find the values of the variables if you are to solve this Sudoku.

### Triangles to Tetrahedra

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Imagine you have an unlimited number of four types of triangle. How many different tetrahedra can you make?

### Diagonal Sums Sudoku

##### Age 7 to 16Challenge Level

Solve this Sudoku puzzle whose clues are in the form of sums of the numbers which should appear in diagonal opposite cells.

### Where Can We Visit?

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Charlie and Abi put a counter on 42. They wondered if they could visit all the other numbers on their 1-100 board, moving the counter using just these two operations: x2 and -5. What do you think?

### Diagonal Product Sudoku

##### Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

Given the products of diagonally opposite cells - can you complete this Sudoku?

### Sticky Numbers

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Can you arrange the numbers 1 to 17 in a row so that each adjacent pair adds up to a square number?

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

How many different symmetrical shapes can you make by shading triangles or squares?

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

If you take a three by three square on a 1-10 addition square and multiply the diagonally opposite numbers together, what is the difference between these products. Why?

### Ratio Sudoku 1

##### Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

A Sudoku with clues as ratios.

### Special Numbers

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

My two digit number is special because adding the sum of its digits to the product of its digits gives me my original number. What could my number be?

### Tea Cups

##### Age 7 to 14Challenge Level

Place the 16 different combinations of cup/saucer in this 4 by 4 arrangement so that no row or column contains more than one cup or saucer of the same colour.

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

You need to find the values of the stars before you can apply normal Sudoku rules.

### Making Maths: Double-sided Magic Square

##### Age 7 to 14Challenge Level

Make your own double-sided magic square. But can you complete both sides once you've made the pieces?

##### Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

Four small numbers give the clue to the contents of the four surrounding cells.

### More on Mazes

##### Age 7 to 14

There is a long tradition of creating mazes throughout history and across the world. This article gives details of mazes you can visit and those that you can tackle on paper.

### Consecutive Negative Numbers

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Do you notice anything about the solutions when you add and/or subtract consecutive negative numbers?

### Pole Star Sudoku 2

##### Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

This Sudoku, based on differences. Using the one clue number can you find the solution?

### Peaches Today, Peaches Tomorrow...

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

A monkey with peaches, keeps a fraction of them each day, gives the rest away, and then eats one. How long can his peaches last?

### Ratio Sudoku 2

##### Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

A Sudoku with clues as ratios.

### Intersection Sudoku 1

##### Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

A Sudoku with a twist.

### Difference Sudoku

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

Use the differences to find the solution to this Sudoku.

### LCM Sudoku II

##### Age 11 to 18Challenge Level

You are given the Lowest Common Multiples of sets of digits. Find the digits and then solve the Sudoku.

### Magnetic Personality

##### Age 7 to 16Challenge Level

60 pieces and a challenge. What can you make and how many of the pieces can you use creating skeleton polyhedra?

##### Age 11 to 16Challenge 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.

### Colour Islands Sudoku

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

An extra constraint means this Sudoku requires you to think in diagonals as well as horizontal and vertical lines and boxes of nine.

### The Best Card Trick?

##### Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

Time for a little mathemagic! Choose any five cards from a pack and show four of them to your partner. How can they work out the fifth?

### Star Product Sudoku

##### Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

The puzzle can be solved by finding the values of the unknown digits (all indicated by asterisks) in the squares of the $9\times9$ grid.

##### Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

This is a variation of sudoku which contains a set of special clue-numbers. Each set of 4 small digits stands for the numbers in the four cells of the grid adjacent to this set.

### Twin Line-swapping Sudoku

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

A pair of Sudoku puzzles that together lead to a complete solution.

### Sociable Cards

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Move your counters through this snake of cards and see how far you can go. Are you surprised by where you end up?

### Isosceles Triangles

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge 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?

### Cuboids

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Can you find a cuboid that has a surface area of exactly 100 square units. Is there more than one? Can you find them all?