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Each week we feature a new interactive puzzle from the Puzzles.COM collection. They are fun and challenging.
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Logic Puzzles
These puzzles are really fun, and they’re really educational too. Print them and solve, or invite your students to play online.
Play 82 Logic Puzzles
Hands On Puzzles
Over 100 puzzles, sorted by grade level and easy to use with your students. Collection of classic and Modern Puzzles.
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Family Brainstorms
Each week we feature a new puzzle that you can print out on a single page and use as a black line master with your students.
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Puzzle Sets
Created by the Grabarchuk brothers to challenge and confound the most adventurous puzzle players. We post a new Puzzle Set to start each month.
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Weekly and Monthly Features
Puzzling Time
Puzzling Time
Move two matches to get the exact time half past four.
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Strimko Set 028
Strimko Set 028
Play the 28th weekly 3-in-1 Strimko Set.
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Turning Train II
Turning Train II
The train in the upper illustration must turn around and head back to Edmonton. After turning, the train and the railway car should be facing towards Edmonton as shown in the lower illustration...
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Missing Page...
Missing Page...
As Mr. Hackett picks up his morning paper, one of the sheets slips out. Simply by seeing the two numbers on the pages facing you, can you deduce how many pages are in the whole paper?
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Always 100!
Always 100!
The puzzle is about your counting skills. How fast can you produce a hundred from a given set of numbers, say six numbers? And what about ten sets at once? What would be your best time?..
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GridWorks Logic Puzzles 037-038
GridWorks 037-038
Play 13th weekly challenges - Logic Puzzles 037-038.
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Three Cups
Three Cups
There are 3 cups and 3 objects - a coin, a bean and a shell.
1) To the left of the red cup is the green cup.
2) To the left of the bean is the coin.
3) To the right of the shell is the blue cup...
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Magic Triangle...
Magic Triangle...
Mrs. Holderman, the math teacher, has given Karen a special math problem. She is to arrange the numbers from 1 to 6 in the triangle so that the sum of each straight line of three circles gives the same result. How would you place the numbers?
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The Card Suits Suite
The Card Suits Suite
Eight pieces with four card suits on them. The goal sounds simple - rotate the whole position of the card suits clockwise sliding the pieces around...
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Fishing Trip
Fishing Trip
Four friends went on their annual fishing trip this past weekend. The trip heralded the end of summer and was usually their last chance to spend a weekend together before family, school, and work drew them away to other concerns...
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Counting Polyominoes
Counting Polyominoes
Polyominoes are shapes that are made by joining identical squares along their edges. A domino is a shape made from two identical squares. The A-piece shown in the illustration is the only example of the domino...
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A Special Tic Tac Toe...
A Special Tic Tac Toe...
In Arnold's Tic Tac Toe, three in a row loses! You are playing the "O"'s and it is your turn. What move can you make to force Arnold to end up with three "X"'s in a row, so he loses?
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The Contour Tangram   Strimko Set 026   A Battle Royal   Convention Chuckle...   The Correct Order Puzzle - R   GridWorks Logic Puzzles 035-036
The Quarrelsome Neighbors   Watering Thoughts...   G-Knights Exchange   School Play   Turning Train   Magic Triangle...
Change The Nine   Strimko Set 024   Magic Triangle 3X   Bear paw...   The Eight Puzzle   The Snail Problem
 
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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.

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