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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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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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Thankfulness and Complaints
Thankfulness and Complaints
by Shelly Hazard
Baha'u'llah, an Arabic religious leader who founded the Bahai Faith, shares with us his views on the difference between the acts of the thankful and those who love to complain.
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GridWorks Logic Puzzles 075-076
GridWorks 075-076
by The Grabarchuk Family
Place the nine colored tokens on the 3x3 game grid in a pattern that matches the clues.
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Shapes & Colors
Shapes & Colors
Place all the sixteen pieces shown in the illustration on a 4x4 board so that none of horizontal and vertical rows, and none of two main diagonals contains two pieces of the same shape or of the same color.
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Bugs' Traffic
Bugs' Traffic
after Martin Gardner
The four bugs standing in the corners of a square start to crawl one toward each other. Here comes the question: How far does each bug travel before they all meet?
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Satire is...
Satire is...
by Shelly Hazard
The formal definition for the literary form of satire is the use of irony, sarcasm, or ridicule to expose or denounce human folly and vice. Philip Roth, an American novelist, provides his definition of satire in this month's puzzle.
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Strimko Set 131
Strimko Set 131
by The Grabarchuk Family
Fill in the grid with missing numbers so that each row, column, and stream contain different numbers.
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Double Tangram
Double Tangram
Copy and cut out the two identical tangram sets as those shown in the illustration. Can you combine all fourteen pieces to form one large square? You can rotate the pieces and turn them over, but it is not allowed to overlap them.
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In Ancient Greece
In Ancient Greece
by Sam Loyd
Make your own virtual travel to discover the secret of an ancient symbol. The main thing is to make the journey as straight as possible.
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Aspiration
Aspiration
by Shelly Hazard
At some point in our lives, we've all had aspirations - a great longing or ambition to do something more or to attain a greater treasure. Zora Neale Hurston, an American folklorist, reflects on the aspirations of her mother and her mother's attempts to get her children to aspire to something more as well.
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Thanksgiving Trivia ~ Susan’s Team
Thanksgiving Trivia ~ Susan’s Team
by Shelly Hazard
The Smith family all converged on Brian and Susan’s house this year in celebration of Thanksgiving Day. The resulting crowd overflowed the house with all the warmth, noise, boisterousness, and love of a large family brought together for the holidays...
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Simple Train Exchange
Simple Train Exchange
by Sam Loyd
Two trains, one of an engine and a car and another - of an engine and two cars, meet at a segment of railroad. There is a switch or side-track on that segment of railroad - just as shown in the illustration. The switch is large enough only to hold one engine or one car at a time...
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How Many Squares?
How Many Squares?
after Professor Louis Hoffmann
It's the visual one but it's not an illusion. Count how many dot-per-corner squares are hidden in the given figure and don't let the answer square your error.
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What Does the Future Hold?   GridWorks Logic Puzzles 071-072   Triple Double Jigsaw 2   The Four Queens   Be Positive!   Strimko Set 126
 
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