Introduction | |
Matchstick triangles | |
A tricky river crossing | |
The baffled engine driver | |
Make your own dice | |
Map folding | |
The ingenious milkman | |
Pawns on a chessboard | |
Avoid three (a game for two players) | |
Two halves make a whole | |
Cubism | |
Matchstick squares | |
Curves of pursuit (a geometric construction) | |
The misguided missiles (an extension of 12) | |
Pattern | |
The army's predicament | |
The farmer's sheep-pens | |
The knight's dance | |
The railway sidings | |
The multi-coloured cube | |
The jealous husbands | |
The extension lead | |
Hex (a game for two players) | |
The square, cross and circle | |
The M÷bius band (a practical activity) | |
The economical gardener | |
How many triangles can you see? | |
The unfriendly power-boats | |
The knight-guards | |
Reserving the trains | |
Quadruplets | |
Complete the square | |
Roll a penny | |
The growing network (a game for two players) | |
Traversibility | |
Impossible rotations! | |
The hunter | |
Four points in a plane | |
The letter dice | |
The queen's defence | |
Seeing is believing | |
Inspecting the roads | |
Dominoes on a chessboard | |
Zigzag (a game for two players) | |
Knight's tours | |
Sawing up a cube | |
The improbable hole | |
Identical twins | |
The four-colour theorem | |
Mystifying matchsticks | |
Equilateral triangle to square | |
Squaring the urn | |
The baffled housewife | |
Invert the triangle | |
Avoid that snooker | |
Squares (a game for two players) | |
The hungry bookworm | |
Place the motorway junction | |
Space filling | |
Curves from intersecting circles (attractive geometrical constructions) | |
A lover's ultimatum! | |
Only four lines | |
How fast can you cycle? | |
The bob-sleigh run | |
Know your vowels | |
Games on a pegboard for one to play | |
Two of a kind | |
Colouring a cube | |
Problems of single line working | |
Two at a time | |
Heads and tails | |
Square a Greek cross | |
The fuel delivery | |
Fair shares | |
Coin magic | |
The persistent frog | |
Tidy that bookshelf! | |
Cutting up a circle | |
Square relations | |
The numerate gardener | |
Magic triangles | |
Number patterns | |
Surprising subtractions | |
How large a number can you get? | |
Four 4s | |
What was the sum? | |
Calculator words | |
A calculator crossword | |
A mining bonanza | |
Hundreds, tens and units | |
Magic circles | |
Prelude to a marathon | |
Find the digits | |
Dr Numerati's telephone number | |
Make a century | |
Number wheels | |
Some calculator challenges | |
Division patterns | |
Some named numbers | |
Magic stars | |
Safety first | |
The gambler's secret strategy | |
The transportation problem | |
Further number patterns | |
Pythagorean triads | |
Intriguing multiplications | |
A magic diamond | |
Palindromic dates | |
'Mind reading' number cards (a number trick to make and use) | |
3 x 3 magic squares | |
4 x 4 and higher order magic squares | |
A magic cube | |
A question of balance | |
Further calculator challenges | |
A weighing problem | |
Similar rectangles | |
Designing a new dartboard | |
The only magic hexagon | |
Nim (a game for two players) | |
Triangulating a square | |
Who is 'it'? | |
Find the cards on the table | |
Dividing the inheritance | |
The end of the world! | |
The sponsored marathon | |
The effect of inflation | |
Octogenarian occupations | |
Tails up! | |
Dovetailed | |
More matchstick mindbenders | |
Bridging the river | |
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