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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.
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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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Hearts & Diamonds
Count how many hearts (counting one in the center) and diamonds decorate the plate... Click the plate and see how one additional diamond appears!
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Circus! Circus!
Circus! Circus!
The circus is in town! Four families got tickets for a day of fun under the big top. Each family brought a different number of children and each family had a different favorite act of the day...
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Boxes and Balloons
Boxes and Balloons
Three boxes contain blue and orange balls. One box contains 2 blue balls, another one contains 2 orange balls, and a third one contains 1 blue and 1 orange ball...
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Matched Set...
Matched Set...
Kimberly has been told by the jeweler that out of the six earrings he has left, he thinks two are a match. Will Kimberly find a matching pair? If so, which two earrings match?
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Cut the Q
Cut the Q
Can you cut the Q into two equal parts? Sounds easy?
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Strimko Set 016
Strimko Set 016
Play the 16th weekly 3-in-1 Strimko Set.
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Wild Tic-Tac-Toe
Wild Tic-Tac-Toe
This game is the same as ordinary tic-tac-toe, except that at each turn the player can choose to play an X or an O...
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Treasure Trail...
Treasure Trail...
Professor Pith Bugby is about to enter a maze of hanging bridges is search of hidden treasure. Will his quest be successful? If so, what is his route?
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Break-In-Two
Break-In-Two
Arrange six strips with digits and signs so that to get four true equations.
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GridWorks Logic Puzzles 025-026
GridWorks 025-026
Play seventh weekly challenges - Logic Puzzles 025-026.
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Circle-Square Interchange
Circle-Square Interchange
What is the minimum number of moves needed to interchange circles with squares?...
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Cat Count...
Cat Count...
Wendy has cats. All but two of them are Siamese, all but two of them are Persian, and all but two of them are Main Coon...
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Numerical Jigsaw   Scrabble Tournament   Reverse the Triangle   Animal Cubes...   Tents   Strimko Set 014
The 7 Knights Problem   Red Square Fold and Cut...   Halloween 2001   GridWorks Logic Puzzles 023-024   Middle of the Stick   Wild Ribbon...
The Site Puzzle   Tea-Fest   The Number Grid Puzzle   Crash Course...   Dissections 12   The Marbles & Rows Puzzle
 
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