Wordle is a daily word game where players have six attempts to guess a five letter word. Feedback for each guess is given in the form of colored tiles to indicate if letters match the correct position
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Activities
Work out which one doesn’t belong
Which One Doesn’t Belong is a website dedicated to providing thought-provoking puzzles for math teachers and students alike. There are no answers provided as there are many different, correct ways of choosing which one doesn’t belong. Enjoy!
“The concept is simple: there are four numbers, shapes, or graphs, and you have to find a reason each one is the odd one out. If the numbers are 9, 16, 25, and 43, you could say 9 is the odd one out because it has only one digit, 16 is the odd one out because it’s not odd, 25 is the odd one out because it does not end in a multiple of three, or 43 is the odd one out because it is not a square. There is no right answer, and each activity can be a jumping-off point for mathematical creativity”
Play Countdown
Countdown is a British game show involving word and number tasks. In the (online) word game you select vowels and consonants as you wish. You then have 30 seconds to find the longest word in the jumbled list. You can select “Solve” to see how you did.
Play the Countdown (Word) game here. Note there is also a link to the Number game and the Conundrum
Spot the International Space Station
Watch the International Space Station pass overhead from several thousand worldwide locations. It is the third brightest object in the sky and easy to spot if you know when to look up. Visible to the naked eye, it looks like a fast-moving plane only much higher and traveling thousands of miles an hour faster!
The tracker shows where the Space Station is right now and its path 90 minutes ago (-1.5 hr) and 90 minutes ahead (+1.5 hr). The dark overlay indicates where it is nighttime in the world.
View the Live Space Station Tracking Map
Learn how to solve cryptic crosswords (2)
Helen has already shared a post, Learn how to solve cryptic crosswords, but here is an app to help you do just that.
Based on a course and book designed and taught by Henry Howarth the app takes you on a learning journey proven to work.
Interactive elements support the teaching with each section builds upon the last. It covers Hidden Words, Anagrams, Charades, Sandwiches, Deletions and many more.
As well as teaching puzzles as you work though the course, the app features 5 crosswords from newspapers such as The Telegraph, The Sun, The Daily Express and Daily Mail. Each with fully explained clue explanations to consolidate learning.
Section one covering Hidden Words and Anagram Clues is FREE to try.
Downloadable for iOS, Android and Kindle Fire HERE
Learn how to tap dance
Bill Simpson writes ..
A little secret: Tap Dance is not as hard as it looks. My goal is simple: to help you take your first few steps with confidence, and to help you discover an incredibly enjoyable pastime. I break each step down clearly and carefully, and don’t give you any chance to get lost.
Want to find out more, check out the full ‘Just TAP’ Absolute Beginner Course:
How to learn any language in six months
Chris Lonsdale is Managing Director of Chris Lonsdale & Associates, a company established to catalyse breakthrough performance for individuals and senior teams. In addition, he has also developed a unique and integrated approach to learning that gives people the means to acquire language or complex technical knowledge in short periods of time.
This is Chris’s TEDx Talk from 2013
How much do you know about First aid
First aid saves lives – can you afford not to make this vital New Year’s resolution?
It is a stark fact that 8 out of 10 parents surveyed admitted they wouldn’t know basic first aid procedures to save their child’s life. Think about the wide range of accidents children have on a regular basis in the comfort of their own home – cuts, choking, falls, asthma attacks – and think how you would feel if it were your child, or your partner, your parent or even your pet.
Consider how confident you would feel faced with the most common medical emergencies occurring at home, school or in the workplace?
Take this short quiz from and find how much you know about first aid
Take the Great Big Travel Quiz
How much do you know about the world? The Great Big Travel Quiz is in The Telegraph
With school cancelled, and adults stuck at home, what better time to show off (or improve) your geography knowledge? Every week, until the Government releases us from our lockdown, we are adding more questions to our ever-expanding travel quiz.
