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Here’s a quick puzzle for you – this square is too wide for its envelope. Can you find a way to make it fit?

Here are two tricky puzzles, which look strangely similar. Did we somehow get a puzzle inside your puzzle? You will need Scissors Copy of the printouts, which you can download here (two pages) What to do

In this trick, you’ll wrap a shoelace around a pencil and a strip of cardboard. The string seems to pass straight through both, tearing the cardboard, but leaving the pencil untouched!

Picture this: you’ve just bought a nice little cake, just for you. Then your friends show up, wanting a piece. Lucky for you, mathematicians have developed some pretty cool ways of sharing.

Grab some dominos and Blu-tack, then make a puzzling sliding block puzzle!

Turn an old copy of Guess Who into a game with a mathematical twist!

Learn the ancient (and very fun) game of Nine Men’s Morris.

There’s only four pieces, but this puzzle is Totally Tricky!

You’ve seen mazes on paper, you may even have explored big mazes on foot. But this maze has a geometric twist – it’s on the surface of a donut. This is a torus maze!

Many words have secret numbers hidden within! Discover them with this pair of quizzes. You can download a printable PDF quiz here.