Can you beat a Match of the Day presenter in our brainteaser challenge?

Presenting an in-depth look at the day’s big football games means you’ve heard a lot about tactics and thinking your way out of a tight corner.

But does that put you in a premier league of solving fiendishly tricky puzzles?

BBC Bitesize challenged Match of the Day’s Mark Chapman to take on a head-scratching half-dozen of brainteasers which tested his powers of logic and deduction. As well as finding mirror images of complex shapes, completing sequences of symbols and cracking a password code, Mark also had to face the prospect of getting a lower final score than the BBC News presenters who took on a similar challenge.

You can take the challenge yourself and also watch to see if Mark Chapman emerges as Champ-man.

This article was published in March 2025