TASK:
Solve 3 beginner 9×9 Sudoku puzzles using logical thinking and elimination strategies.
EXAMPLE:
Start with beginner Sudoku puzzles and use clues to work out where each number belongs. No guessing!
WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
📱 A phone, tablet, or printed Sudoku puzzles.
WHAT TO SUBMIT:
📝 Your completed Sudoku puzzles.
TASK:
Use an AI tool (e.g., ChatGPT) to generate practice questions on a topic you are learning, then answer the questions without using AI and check your understanding.
EXAMPLE:
Ask AI to create a Science quiz, a Maths revision exercise, or vocabulary questions for a language you're studying.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
📱 A phone or PLD, and access to an AI tool.
WHAT TO SUBMIT:
📸 A screenshot of your chat with the AI, the AI-generated questions, together with your completed answers and a short reflection on how well you did.
TASK:
Decode emoji messages, then create your own emoji story or sentence for someone else to solve.
EXAMPLE:
Can you work out what these mean?
🏃💨📚
🌧️☕📖
😴⏰😱
WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
📱 A phone or a sheet of paper.
WHAT TO SUBMIT:
📝 Your completed emoji challenge, including your decoded answers and your own original emoji message.
TASK:
Learn 10 useful phrases in a language you've never learnt before and practise using them correctly.
EXAMPLE:
Learn greetings, food vocabulary, or useful travel phrases in Korean, Japanese, French, German, or another language.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
📱 A phone or PLD.
WHAT TO SUBMIT:
🎥 A video or audio recording of yourself saying the 10 phrases, together with their English meanings.
TASK:
Design and complete your own Thinker Challenge that helps you strengthen your thinking, problem-solving, reasoning, or learning skills.
EXAMPLE:
♟️ Learn the basics of chess/a board game and play a full game.
🧩 Complete a challenging logic puzzle or brain teaser.
💻 Learn a simple coding skill or create a basic program.
🧠 Memorise and perform a memory technique.
GUIDELINES:
Your challenge should:
Be safe and suitable for you to complete independently.
Take at least 30 minutes to complete (or involve regular practice over at least a day).
Have a clear learning goal that you can demonstrate.
Help you develop your thinking, reasoning, or problem-solving skills.
Challenge you to learn something new.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
📝 Any materials, resources, or digital tools needed for your chosen challenge.
WHAT TO SUBMIT:
📹 A photo or video showing your completed challenge, together with a short description (2 to 3 sentences) explaining:
What you chose to do.
Why you chose it.
What you learnt or improved.