Pigeonhole Matching · The Mitten Box
A box of red and blue mittens, in the dark. How many to be sure of a matching pair?
About the Puzzle
A box of red and blue mittens, in the dark. How many to be sure of a matching pair?
4 Puzzles
The Mitten Box
The Sock Drawer
Same Birthday Month
Three of a Kind
Frequently asked questions
Pigeonhole Matching is tagged for Grades K-12. Puzzles within it get harder as your child improves.
4 Pigeonhole Matching puzzles, each a fresh layout of the same rules.
No: Pigeonhole Matching plays directly in the browser, right on this page. No login, no download.
Present a real-world scenario and a question that can't be solved by direct calculation: the child has to find the underlying structure or trick (e.g. realizing every handshake gets counted twice). Builds mathematical insight, seeing why something must be true, rather than computation speed.