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Welcome to PIE, the Puzzles in Education section of Puzzles.COM!

You belong here if you are a teacher looking to learn about the best work going on in the world today on teaching creative problem solving to students, or a concerned parent looking for the same things for your own children.

We are always on the watch for good programs, and there are a few out there that are exceptional that you should know about. Follow this link to learn more about these programs and how you could get involved with them.

Puzzle Resources

As a teacher, what you really need most to have a great puzzle program, are the puzzles themselves. So here they are, organized and sorted the best way we know how, to be useful to you and your students. If you have suggestions for new ways to present puzzles, send us a note, to tthompson@thinkfun.com.

ThinkFun Family Brainstorms Challenge

Each week we feature a new puzzle that you can print out in black and white on a single page and use as a black line master with your students. Schools have reported great success by encouraging families to work on the puzzles together at home. Print out the PDF file, file the solution page and make copies of the Challenge page to hand out to your students.

Challenge of the Week: Top View… (PDF: 412 KB)

Go to ThinkFun Family Brainstorms Challenges

The Best Hands On Puzzle Collection

Over 100 puzzles, sorted by grade level and easy to access and print out to use with your students. Students work in teams to build their own version of these puzzles along with their own instructions, then present their puzzles and play with puzzles from other teams. These are great puzzles for SNAP Math Fairs.

Go to Hands On Puzzle Collection

Puzzles.COM Logic Puzzle

These puzzles are really fun, and they’re really educational too. Play the paper and pencil version, or invite your students to play our interactive online version. This should also be a weekly regular for your students! Click the section header to view this week’s Logic Puzzle of the Week, and to play if you wish.

Puzzle of the Week: Open Mike Night

Go to Puzzles.COM Logic Puzzles

Rush Hour Challenge Lesson

To play these, you either need the Rush Hour game or your students have to be very good at spatial reasoning. Rush Hour is the world’s greatest mind challenge game, and these Challenge Lessons take the experience to a whole new level. Take a look at this week’s Challenge Lesson to see what we mean.

Challenge Lesson of the Week: Tracking the Moves (PDF: 200KB)

Go to Rush Hour Challenge Lessons

Puzzles.COM Select Best Puzzle Sets

Created by the Grabarchuk brothers to challenge and confound the most adventurous puzzle players. Everyone should take a look, but these are advanced puzzles. We post a new Puzzle Set to start each month.

Puzzle Set of the Month: Geometrical 12

Go to Puzzles.COM Best Puzzle Sets

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Family Brainstorms Challenge | Hands On Puzzles | Logic Puzzles | Rush Hour Challenge Lessons | Puzzle Sets