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  ### Transformation Game
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Why not challenge a friend to play this transformation game?
  
  ### 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?
  
  ### Cryptarithms
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Can you crack these cryptarithms?
  
  ### Sociable Cards
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Move your counters through this snake of cards and see how far you can go. Are you surprised by where you end up?
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  How many different symmetrical shapes can you make by shading triangles or squares?
  
  ##### 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. . . .
  
  ### Shapely Pairs
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  A game in which players take it in turns to turn up two cards. If they can draw a triangle which satisfies both properties they win the pair of cards. And a few challenging questions to follow...
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  What happens when you add a three digit number to its reverse?
  
  ### M, M and M
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  If you are given the mean, median and mode of five positive whole numbers, can you find the numbers?
  
  ### Reversals
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Where should you start, if you want to finish back where you started?
  
  ### Special Numbers
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge 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?
  
  ### Two and Two
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.
  
  ### Dicey Operations
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?
  
  ### The Remainders Game
  
  ##### Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.
  
  ### Product Sudoku
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.
  
  ### 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...
  
  ### On the Edge
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  If you move the tiles around, can you make squares with different coloured edges?
  
  ### Triangles to Tetrahedra
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Imagine you have an unlimited number of four types of triangle. How many different tetrahedra can you make?
  
  ### Missing Multipliers
  
  ##### Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  What is the smallest number of answers you need to reveal in order to work out the missing headers?
  
  ### Funny Factorisation
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Using the digits 1 to 9, the number 4396 can be written as the product of two numbers. Can you find the factors?
  
  ### Treasure Hunt
  
  ##### Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Can you find a reliable strategy for choosing coordinates that will locate the treasure in the minimum number of guesses?
  
  ### Constructing Triangles
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Generate three random numbers to determine the side lengths of a triangle. What triangles can you draw?
  
  ### Cuboids
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Find a cuboid (with edges of integer values) that has a surface area of exactly 100 square units. Is there more than one? Can you find them all?
  
  ### 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.
  
  ### Difference Sudoku
  
  ##### Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
  
  Use the differences to find the solution to this Sudoku.
  
  ### Wipeout
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Can you do a little mathematical detective work to figure out which number has been wiped out?
  
  ### What Does Random Look Like?
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Engage in a little mathematical detective work to see if you can spot the fakes.
  
  ### Odds and Evens
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Is this a fair game? How many ways are there of creating a fair game by adding odd and even numbers?
  
  ### Two's Company
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  7 balls are shaken in a container. You win if the two blue balls touch. What is the probability of winning?
  
  ### Cosy Corner
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Six balls of various colours are randomly shaken into a trianglular arrangement. What is the probability of having at least one red in the corner?
  
  ### Marbles in a Box
  
  ##### Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
  
  How many winning lines can you make in a three-dimensional version of noughts and crosses?
  
  ### Gabriel's Problem
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Gabriel multiplied together some numbers and then erased them. Can you figure out where each number was?
  
  ### Stars
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Can you find a relationship between the number of dots on the circle and the number of steps that will ensure that all points are hit?
  
  ### Shifting Times Tables
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Can you find a way to identify times tables after they have been shifted up or down?
  
  ### Dozens
  
  ##### Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Do you know a quick way to check if a number is a multiple of two? How about three, four or six?
  
  ### Semi-regular Tessellations
  
  ##### Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
  
  Semi-regular tessellations combine two or more different regular polygons to fill the plane. Can you find all the semi-regular tessellations?
  
  ### Attractive Tablecloths
  
  ##### Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
  
  Charlie likes tablecloths that use as many colours as possible, but insists that his tablecloths have some symmetry. Can you work out how many colours he needs for different tablecloth designs?
  
  ### Where Can We Visit?
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge 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?
  
  ### 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?
  
  ### Which Spinners?
  
  ##### Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
  
  Can you work out which spinners were used to generate the frequency charts?
  
  ### A Chance to Win?
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Imagine you were given the chance to win some money... and imagine you had nothing to lose...
  
  ### Last One Standing
  
  ##### Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
  
  Imagine a room full of people who keep flipping coins until they get a tail. Will anyone get six heads in a row?
  
  ### Arithmagons
  
  ##### Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
  
  Can you find the values at the vertices when you know the values on the edges?
  
  ### Multiplication Arithmagons
  
  ##### Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
  
  Can you find the values at the vertices when you know the values on the edges of these multiplication arithmagons?
  
  ### Substitution Cipher
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Find the frequency distribution for ordinary English, and use it to help you crack the code.
  
  ### Perception Versus Reality
  
  ##### Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
  
  Infographics are a powerful way of communicating statistical information. Can you come up with your own?
  
  ### Unequal Averages
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  Play around with sets of five numbers and see what you can discover about different types of average...
  
  ### Box Plot Match
  
  ##### Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
  
  Match the cumulative frequency curves with their corresponding box plots.
  
  ### How Much Can We Spend?
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  A country has decided to have just two different coins, 3z and 5z coins. Which totals can be made? Is there a largest total that cannot be made? How do you know?
  
  ### Tower of Hanoi
  
  ##### Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
  
  The Tower of Hanoi is an ancient mathematical challenge. Working on the building blocks may help you to explain the patterns you notice.
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