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Interactive Puzzles
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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Weekly and Monthly Features
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A New Look at Religion
A New Look at Religion
The Dalai Lama, a religious leader of Tibetan Buddhism, shares a new way to perceive religion in this month's puzzle.
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GridWorks Logic Puzzles 041-042
GridWorks 041-042
Play 15th weekly challenges - Logic Puzzles 041-042.
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Circling Numbers
Circling Numbers
Write four 1’s and three 2’s in the empty circles so that no three numbers that are beside each other on the big circle, have a sum that is divisible by three.
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Cross vs. Square
Cross vs. Square
The four identical pieces can be simultaneously used to form a Greek cross and a perfect square. Can you discover both of these shapes? Any ideas how on it?
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What Computers Can Do
What Computers Can Do
Doug Larson, a Wisconsin journalist, makes an interesting observation about what home computers can do in this month's puzzle.
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Christmas Rematch ~ Brian’s Team
Christmas Rematch ~ Brian’s Team
Once again, the Smith family converged on Brian and Susan’s house, this time to celebrate Christmas...
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Two Match Squares
Two Match Squares
24 matchsticks are used to form the figure in the illustration. Remove 8 matchsticks and end up with just two squares.
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Disk in2 Ovals
Disk in2 Ovals
Can you divide a circular table top into the fewest number of pieces so that they could be rearranged into the seats of two oval stools with open handholds?
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What We Dream
What We Dream
Dreaming is something we all have in common - whether we dream in stories or images, black and white or color, everyone dreams while they sleep. Some speculate it's a way for our subconscious minds to work out problems...
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Strimko Set 030
Strimko Set 030
Play the 30th weekly 3-in-1 Strimko Set.
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A Hopscotch Puzzle
A Hopscotch Puzzle
Can you draw the hopscotch figure shown in the illustration without taking your pencil off the paper or going along the same line twice?
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The Testa
The Testa
It consists of nine rectangles, it uses five colors, and it reminds you of the "different-colors-in-rows-and-columns" challenge all the way.
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Dreaming   GridWorks Logic Puzzles 039-040   Circle Circumference and the Number Pi   The Marbles & Rows Puzzle   Windmill Puzzle   Pool Party
No More Squares   Square Intersection   Puzzling Time   Strimko Set 028   Turning Train II   Missing Page...
Always 100!   GridWorks Logic Puzzles 037-038   Three Cups   Magic Triangle...   The Card Suits Suite   Fishing Trip
 
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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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