Find the 24 participating countries in this ball-shaped puzzle. Solution included

The traditional board game programmed for Windows. For two to six players with options to play with one or two dice and whether you have to throw the exact number to win. Good practice in adding numbers as players anticipate what they need to throw to go up a ladder and what they don’t want to throw to avoid a snake. 15-day free trial at Discovery Educational Software

This is a software package for Windows which creates endless puzzles to play or print. Five sizes of puzzle: 4 X 4, 6 X 6, 9 X 9, 12 X 12 and 16 X 16 Including Sudoku X, Killer Sudoku and Alpha-Sudoku, plus a notepad Main features: A new puzzle every time Optional hints Optional notepad updates Play on-screen or print out Save a partially completed puzzle to be completed later Copy puzzles to paste in your own worksheet Answer sheets to print or copy/paste Copy from a printed source to solve on screen (the app instantly finds the solution and can therefore offer hints) Get a 15-day free trial at Discovery Educational Software.

This is a software package for Windows which creates puzzle worksheets in seconds from a list of words or a piece of text. Three types of word puzzles: Type or paste a list of words, on any topic, in any language, and in seconds you can print a wordsearch, a crossword puzzle and a set of scrambled words. Three types of text puzzles: Type or paste a piece of text, and in seconds you can print a text maze, a coded text and scrambled text in a variety of forms. Characters are available for most European languages and it is also possible to include numbers and other non-alpha characters in your puzzles. Various options give you control over the difficulty of the puzzle and the appearance of your worksheet. Or if you prefer you can export the puzzle into your word-processor or desktop-publisher to give your worksheet your own personal touch. Eight ready-to-use puzzle worksheets on a variety of subjects are included. These demonstrate what the package is capable of producing. Get a 15-day free trial at Discovery Educational Software.

Make up your own quizzes and tests to use with your pupils. Five fun learning quiz games and easy-to-use multiple-choice test software. The Quiz Games Three games for two players: Connections, Snakes and Ladders and At the Races. Two more games for one player: Millionaire and The Sky’s the Limit. Twelve sample quizzes are provided: EAL 1 (vocabulary) EAL 2 (grammar) EAL 3 (idioms) French 1 and 2 German 1 and 2 Primary maths, Capital cities Football, Pop Music, General knowledge Using the Editor provided you can make up your own quizzes on any subject, at any level and in any language. Foreign characters, mathematical symbols, etc. are available. The Tests The multiple-choice test software allows for a range of possible question types and can include pictures. Candidates can be given immediate feedback and their performance can be stored on the computer. Using the Editor software you will create your own tests for your own subject and your own pupils. Two types of question are available: true-false and multiple choice. In the multiple-choice option you can offer up to five possible answers, any number of which can be correct, and you can tell the candidate how many are correct, or this can be left open. Foreign characters, mathematical symbols etc. are available. A short test is provided for demonstration purposes. Get a 15-day free trial at Discovery Educational Software.

Six printable worksheets: 1 A summary of Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ with jumbled sentences to rearrange 2 A wordsearch puzzle in the shape of a tree with a hidden message 3 A Christmas crossword puzzle 4 Titles of twelve well-known Christmas songs in code 5 “Merry Christmas” in sixteen foreign languages (Internet exercise) 6 ‘Pathfinder’ puzzle with Christmas words Answer sheets are included