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Brain Teasers & Puzzles |
Puzzles... Puzzles??? Puzzles!!!Some people love them, others hate them. I love them and started collecting them, partly for my students as brain exercises because, according to de Bono:
(Edward de Bono. 1995. Mind Power.
Dorling Kindersley.) |
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Puzzle / Problem |
Puzzle / Problem |
| 2 Quilts from one 13x13 quilt | Hexagon puzzle |
| 4 Colours, 16 squares | How to get to the other side |
| 4 Colours, 4 cubes | The looped band |
| 5 Pieces, 6 Figures | Matches puzzles |
| 5 Colours, 16 squares | Mathematical expression |
| 5 Shapes, 1 square | Mathematics: x = 4 |
| 8 Queens on a chess board | Mathematics: find a value for ? |
| Binary puzzle (colour contact) | Missing corners |
| Centre of mass of a coke can | Origami |
| Coin puzzle | Pentomino Puzzles |
| Connect the dots | Convex polygons |
| Cut the Cake | Seeing is believing! |
| Divide the square | The Soma cube |
| Domino mathematics | Tie a knot |
| Dwarfs | Twisted Wires |
| Electric Bulb Puzzle | Twos |
| Find the expression (some lateral thinking is asked for) | U2 Concert to start in 17 minutes ... |
| More phrases | Water Puzzle |
| Get in Gear | |
| Links to "Puzzle and Brain
Teasers" sites on the Internet. |
| 16 July 2005 |