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Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level 
In order to have four overlapping areas we need something like this:
showing $15$ areas.
Or, when moving on to five we need something like this:
Showing $31$ areas.
These are just suggestions and there are other ways of constructing a suitable arrangement.
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