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Here we feature a new interactive puzzle to play on the web or on your iPhone/iPad. 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
Here 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 Family to challenge and confound the most adventurous puzzle players. We post a new Puzzle Set to start each month.
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We Think Our Deeds
We Think Our Deeds
by Shelly Hazard
This month's puzzle is taken from the philosophy of Buddhism. It considers the question of how best to live your life and the affect your actions have upon it.
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Strimko Set 153
Strimko Set 153
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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From Five to Four
From Five to Four
Take sixteen matchsticks and arrange them into five squares as shown in the illustration. The object is to move two matchsticks to new positions to get exactly four identical squares instead of five.
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Counting the Triangles
Counting the Triangles
by Henry E. Dudeney
A pentagon divided with five lines proposes us a grid where several triangles are hidden. How fast can you count all of them? Is any method required to do this?
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A Friend Is...
A Friend Is...
by Shelly Hazard
Elbert Hubbard, a 19th century American writer, publisher, and philosopher, identifies the true meaning of a friend in this month's puzzle.
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Got Fruit?
Got Fruit?
by Shelly Hazard
Cindy went grocery shopping yesterday and was delighted to find an excellent selection of fruit available. All of it was fresh, and even better all of it was on sale! She ended up buying a bit more than she expected to, but was quite pleased with her purchases...
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Four Stacks
Four Stacks
by Martin Gardner
Place eight coins in a row as shown in the illustration. The object is to make from all the coins four stacks of two coins each and it should be done in four moves only. Every move consists of jumping of a coin over any two coins (no matter lying flat or in a stack) in one direction, and stopping on the top of the next coin.
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Shapes & Colors
Shapes & Colors
Every piece in this set has two parameters: shape and color. And they both are very important when you're placing the pieces within a square grid. You'll see why.
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Cross Fingers
Cross Fingers
by Mobigame
You will need to exercise your brain, imagination and - unique for a puzzle game - your reflexes and dexterity to complete all 720 levels! One of the best puzzle games for your iPhone and iPad.
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GridWorks Logic Puzzles 091-092
GridWorks 091-092
from ThinkFun Inc. and The Grabarchuk Family
Place the nine colored tokens on the 3x3 game grid in a pattern that matches the clues.
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Four Small Triangles
Four Small Triangles
There are 10 equilateral triangles in the shape shown in the illustration. Remove the smallest number of matchsticks to leave four little triangles.
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Three Squares
Three Squares
after Lewis Carroll
It almost doesn't cost a thing to draw three squares without taking a pencil off the paper and without crossing the line. Or does it?
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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.

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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.

What's New
We Think Our Deeds - play new educational puzzle online  |  May 18, 2013
Strimko Set 153 - play new educational logic puzzle  |  May 18, 2013
From Five to Four - solve new educational hands on puzzle  |  May 18, 2013
Counting the Triangles - download new educational family brainstorm  |  May 18, 2013
A Friend Is... - play new educational puzzle online  |  May 6, 2013
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