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In this 4 by 4 Mathematical Sudoku, you need to use the clues available to fill the sixteen cells.
Clicking on the purple cog in the top right corner allows you to access twelve different puzzles at different levels of difficulty.
If you are not familiar with Mathdokus, you may like to watch this introductory video, which gives you some ideas of the strategies you may find useful.
This Mathdoku belongs to a set, which also contains 3 by 3, 5 by 5 and 6 by 6 grid sizes.
If you would prefer to work away from the computer, you can print out these grids: Mathdoku grids of difficulty 1, Mathdoku grids of difficulty 2, Mathdoku grids of difficulty 3.
NRICH would like to thank Tetsuya Miyamoto, a Japanese maths teacher, whose puzzles have inspired our Mathdokus.
Place four pebbles on the sand in the form of a square. Keep adding as few pebbles as necessary to double the area. How many extra pebbles are added each time?
Suppose we allow ourselves to use three numbers less than 10 and multiply them together. How many different products can you find? How do you know you've got them all?
Investigate the different shaped bracelets you could make from 18 different spherical beads. How do they compare if you use 24 beads?