burger fun / 24 Game Solver

24 Game practice

The card game without the cards: pick a difficulty, get dealt four digits that are guaranteed to make 24, and type your way there with + - × ÷ and parentheses. Every answer is checked with exact fraction arithmetic. Solve to grow your streak; give up and the solutions appear, but the streak goes back to zero.

How it works

  • Every dealt hand is solvable — hands come from an exhaustive solve of all 495 possible hands of digits 1 to 9, of which 404 can make 24.
  • Difficulty is the number of genuinely different solutions a hand has: easy means 6 or more, medium 3 to 5, hard exactly 2, and brutal exactly 1.
  • Use each dealt digit exactly once with + - × ÷ and parentheses. No sticking digits together, no exponents, no square roots.
  • Your streak, best streak, and solved count are saved in your browser only. A small per-hand timer runs if you want it; hide it if you do not.

Need answers instead? Open the 24 game solver or study the hardest 24 game puzzles.

FAQ

How do the difficulty levels work?

Difficulty is derived from how many genuinely different solutions a hand has, counted by an exhaustive solver that treats rearrangements like 3 × 8 and 8 × 3 as the same answer. Easy hands have 6 or more distinct solutions, medium 3 to 5, hard exactly 2, and brutal exactly 1 — on a brutal hand there is a single road to 24 and you have to find it.

Are the dealt hands always solvable?

Yes. Hands are dealt only from the 404 solvable hands (out of 495 possible), as proven by exhaustive search with exact fraction arithmetic. If you are stuck, the hand is not broken — but you can give up and see every solution, at the price of your streak.

What counts as a correct answer?

An expression that uses each of the four dealt digits exactly once, combines them with only addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and parentheses, and equals exactly 24. The check uses exact fractions, so 23.999… tricks do not sneak through — and fair fraction routes like 8 ÷ (3 − 8 ÷ 3) count.

Is my streak saved anywhere?

Only in your browser's local storage, on your device. There is no account, no leaderboard, and nothing is sent to a server. Clearing site data resets your stats.

Is this the same as the 24 card game?

Same rules as the single-digit 24 Game deck: four numbers from 1 to 9, make exactly 24. Instead of racing another player to slap the card, you race the hand itself — and unlike the deck, this one can deal you all 94 single-solution hands on demand.

The Number Lab

Same idea, different constraints: four 9s, four 4s, or any four digits you like.

Or browse more free math games.