Times tables games – free multiplayer snake for tables 2 to 12
Every multiplication fact from 2 × 2 to 12 × 12 lives inside one free browser game. Pick a table below to work on it by itself, or go straight to the snake arena where the facts arrive mixed together. There is nothing to download and nothing to sign up for.
Choose a times table
Each page has the full table written out, a memory trick, and a button that drops you into the game locked to that table alone.
How the game works
You steer a snake with your finger or your mouse. A multiplication question sits on the snake's head, sweets scattered around the arena carry possible answers, and eating the right one makes the snake longer. Eat a wrong answer and you lose a few segments; bump into another snake's body and you lose a few more. There is no timer and no game over screen, so a child who is still working an answer out is never punished for being slow.
Which times tables does my child need?
The National Curriculum for England expects children to know the 2, 5 and 10 times tables by the end of Year 2, the 3, 4 and 8 times tables by the end of Year 3, and every table up to 12 × 12 by the end of Year 4. That last milestone matters because of the Multiplication Tables Check, the statutory online test that every Year 4 class in England sits in June: 25 questions, six seconds each, no calculator and no going back to change an answer.
Practice that sticks
Getting an answer right is not the same as knowing it. A child who works out 6 × 4 by counting 6, 12, 18, 24 will still earn the mark, but the same child runs out of working memory later on, in long multiplication, in division and in word problems. The arena brings a fact back round a few turns after a mistake, so weak facts come up more often than the ones already secure, and the difficulty opens up with length: a short snake meets the easy tables, and the 7s, 9s and 12s only appear once it has grown. The game runs on a phone, a tablet, a laptop or an interactive whiteboard, with no account and no adverts, so it works in a KS2 classroom as well as at home.
Memory tricks, table by table
Every answer in the 2 times table is an even number, so it ends in 0, 2, 4, 6 or 8. Multiplying by 2 is simply doubling — if your child can double 7 to make 14, they already know 7 × 2.
Add the digits of any answer in the 3 times table and you land on 3, 6 or 9: 24 gives 2 + 4 = 6, so 24 belongs in the table. Counting aloud in threes is the quickest way in.
Multiplying by 4 is doubling twice over: 7 doubled is 14, doubled again is 28, so 7 × 4 = 28. Every answer is even, and half of it sits in the 2 times table.
Answers in the 5 times table always end in 5 or 0 — an odd number of fives ends in 5, an even number ends in 0. It is also half of the 10 times table, so 6 × 10 = 60 gives 6 × 5 = 30.
The 6 times table is the 3 times table doubled: 7 × 3 = 21, so 7 × 6 = 42. Every answer is even and also appears in the 3 times table.
Most children leave the 7 times table until last, but by then they already know most of it from the other tables, because 7 × 4 is the same as 4 × 7. Only 7 × 7 = 49, 7 × 8 = 56 and 7 × 9 = 63 are genuinely new.
Multiplying by 8 is doubling three times: 6 becomes 12, then 24, then 48, so 6 × 8 = 48. It is also the 4 times table doubled.
Hold up ten fingers and fold down the fourth one: three fingers stand to the left and six to the right, so 9 × 4 = 36. Up to 9 × 10 the digits of every answer add up to 9.
Multiplying by 10 moves every digit one place to the left, so 7 × 10 = 70. Avoid saying “add a zero”, because that rule falls apart as soon as decimals arrive.
Up to 11 × 9 you just repeat the digit: 11 × 4 = 44 and 11 × 7 = 77. From 11 × 10 the pattern breaks, so learn 110, 121 and 132 on their own.
The 12 times table is the 10 times table plus the 2 times table: 7 × 12 = 70 + 14 = 84. It is the last table in the Multiplication Tables Check and the one that turns up in time and money problems.
Frequently asked questions
Are these times tables games free?
Yes. Every game on this page is free to play, with no account, no email address and no advertising. Children can play as often as they like.
Which times tables does the Multiplication Tables Check cover?
All tables from 2 to 12. The check is 25 questions with six seconds to answer each one and a three second gap in between. It weights the 6, 7, 8, 9 and 12 times tables most heavily, because those are the facts children find hardest.
What age are these games for?
They suit children from about Year 2 to Year 6, roughly ages 6 to 11. A Year 2 child can play with the 2, 5 and 10 times tables on their own page, while older children take on the mixed arena.
Can a whole class play together?
Yes. The snake arena has a shared room where everyone sees each other's snakes in real time, and the leaderboard only counts real players, never the computer-controlled snakes.