Game Zone
Here you'll find games, quizzes, puzzles and colouring for all the family to enjoy!
Games
- Play our Sconce Invaders game to become a Royalist Musketeer, defending Newark from the advancing Parliamentarians during a siege! Fend off the forces of Parliament to save the town! (The controls are: Left and Right Arrow keys to move the player character and Spacebar to shoot. Escape can be used to pause the game.)
Interactive Quizzes
(NB These interactive PDFs work on laptops and some types of phones)
- Do you have what it takes to be a Cavalryman for the King? Take our interactive Boye quiz to find out: Boye Interactive Quiz (PDF File, 1,609kb)
- Do you have what it takes to be a Pikeman in the New Model Army? Take our interactive Blackjack quiz to find out: BlackJack Interactive Quiz (PDF File, 1,561kb)
- Learn about the weird and wonderful religious sects of the 17th century and take our quiz to find out where you'd belong: Find Your 17th Century Tribe Quiz (PDF File, 1,723kb)
Puzzles
Wordsearches
- British Civil Wars wordsearch (PDF File, 584kb)
- People of the British Civil Wars wordsearch (PDF File, 585kb)
Crosswords
- Weekly crossword 1 (PDF File, 374kb)
- Crossword 1 solution (PDF File, 371kb)
- Weekly Crossword 2 (PDF File, 352kb)
- Weekly crossword 2 solution (PDF File, 370kb)
Colouring
- Colour In Boye (PDF File, 909kb)
- Colour in King Charles I (PDF File, 49kb)
- Colour in Queen Henrietta Maria (PDF File, 47kb)
- Colour in Cromwell (PDF File, 66kb)
- Colour in Prince Rupert (PDF File, 46kb)
- Make your own Danger Doll which you can add gruesome wounds to! Read our Danger Doll instructions (PDF File, 357kb) then print off your Danger Doll (PDF File, 134kb)
- Colour in Musketeer! (PDF File, 157kb): The Musketeer is loading his gun. Colour him in and draw the battlefield around him!
- Colour in Artillery Cannon! (PDF File, 148kb): The Artillery soldier has just fired his cannon! What is he shooting at? Draw the scene and colour it in!
Adult colouring
Enjoy colouring in these simple line drawings of some of Newark's sights!
- Colour in Newark Castle and the Sonning (PDF File, 72kb)
- Colour in the Palace Theatre (PDF File, 44kb)
- Colour in a Newark Royal Market Flower Stall (PDF File, 130kb)
- Colour in Newark Town Hall (PDF File, 122kb)