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It’s happened to all of us – the computer program you’re using starts thinking and won’t respond. Sometimes, you just need to wait for it to finish what it’s doing. But other times, it’s stuck in a loop and it’ll never recover. So is it time to press the reset button?

In this puzzle, each Aussie animal stands for a number. Each animal represents the same number throughout the puzzle. Can you use the first three mathematical equations to figure out the answer to the last equation?

A team of engineers have invented a new, stretchy battery that is clear. Another team have invented a jelly-like battery that is rainbow coloured. Both teams want to compare how long their batteries last to a regular, silver AA battery.

These grid-based logic problems require Sherlock-like deduction! We’ll take you through the basics of solving these tricky word puzzles.

Lavonne is a security guard who has to walk around the outside of an L-shaped building. She knows the length of the longest sides, 200 metres and 140 metres. She also knows the shape of the building and that each of the angles are 90 degrees. What is the building’s perimeter?

One day, Rumi’s chess club coach asks her, “how many squares are on a chess board?” Rumi replies, “That’s easy, the board is 8 by 8, so there are 64 squares!” Her coach smiles, “What about the larger squares made up of smaller squares? The board is an 8 by 8 square after all!” How many squares are on a chess board?

The teacher challenges Becki and her classmates to find three bottom numbers that follow the pattern and add up to 15. Becki is pretty sure that there are multiple solutions, where the numbers along the bottom appear in different orders. If she keeps at it, how many different solutions will Becki find?

Anamaria and Chen are two friends who toured a magical chocolate factory! They both get enormous amounts of chocolate and they want to share it evenly between them. Anamaria gets 1,574,936 squares of chocolate and Chen gets 3,569,321 squares of chocolate. Without using a calculator, can you tell if it is possible for them to share the chocolate between them without breaking any squares?

Difficulty: Tricky Jack is making a quilt from only square patches of fabric. For every 4 patches he sews together, 1 patch is blue and 3 patches are red. Once they are added to the quilt, all of the patches are 5 cm in width and length. Jack wants to make a quilt that is […]

Miguel hopes to become a magnificent mathematical magician. For his first trick he wants to present a standard 52-card deck and dramatically draw a face card (Jack, Queen or King). If the deck is randomly shuffled, what is the probability that Miguel will draw a face card on the first try?