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This month there is a puzzle about a cube being lowered into a bucket of milk along with news of the new shunting puzzles
This month there is a puzzle about four people making their way through a tunnel with just one torch along with news of the new numerology page
This month there is a puzzle about Why is halloween like Christmas along with news of the new Number Skills Inventory
This month there is a puzzle about an explorer being chased by a bear along with a question about imperial and metric measures with Measurement Man
Can you figure out exactly how many gifts the true love sends during the twelve days of the Christmas holiday?
A mathematical question asked by Microsoft and Google interviewers.
A coding question inspired by the film The Imitation Game.
What is the probability of two or more pupils in a class having the same birthday?
Which of the unusual dice would you choose to give you the best chance of winning the prize?
Questions about the letters used to make the natural numbers.
If the coin tossing game was cut short how would you share the winnings?
How can the third mathematician be so certain that everyone wants a drink?
How far does the bookworm travel on its meal-time journey?
What single question could Dec ask Ant to find out what he is thinking?
A question about indices to get you thinking mathematically at this festive time of year.
Find how ticks compare to tocks, tacks and tucks from the given information.
Where did the missing pound go in this story about three people visiting a restaurant?
What is the smallest square number (greater than one) that cannot be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers?
What is the probability of the three cars arriving at the road junction not being involved in an accident?
The angles of a triangle are all square numbers. What are they?
A brand new puzzle involving the letters in numbers when written as words.
A puzzle about two digit numbers that can be made from ten different digits.
Work out the combination of the safe given the clues about pairs of numbers.
Is it possible to answer the question if Betsy's age is not known?
The probability that the next train to leave will be going north is five times the probability that the next train to leave will be going south.
