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Puzzles to Exercise the Brain
Last Updated Jan 7, 2009 09:29 AM
Brainbinders.com
Not all brain puzzles require reading. Try this origami puzzle, for example. To solve the puzzle, print Puzzle 2002 from the Brainbinders.com site (reduced-size sample below), cut it out, and make two folds so that you end with a solid color on each side. You'll find 50 different puzzles at Brainbinders.com. This one is one of the easiest. Others require two, three, four, or five folds to solve.
2. Make two folds so each side of the folded puzzle is a solid color.
Brain Teasers: The Ultimate Puzzle Site
Take your students' brains on a "power walk" to this site. There you'll find hundreds of brainteasers like the one below. Be careful about directing students to this site, however, if you want to keep them out of the arcade.
3. A camel has 3,000 bananas. The animal wants to travel a 1,000-mile stretch of desert. It has to eat one banana for each mile it walks. The camel can carry only 1,000 bananas at a time. The camel's family waits on the other side of the desert. The camel wants to find a way to take as many bananas to the family as possible. Hint: The camel doesn't have to go all the way at once and can leave bananas in the desert because the camel and its family are the only camels that eat bananas. Can the camel take any extra bananas? If so, how many?
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Use It Or Lose It? Our Brain. Its been proven that Puzzles help our brains exercise in myriad ways. Puzzles are very stimulating to a persons brain, especially Puzzles designed for the early childhood. Here at Kidslearnonline.com we try to get the best Pu Tiling puzzles use two-dimensional shapes that have to be assembled into a larger given shape without overlaps (and often without gaps). Some tiling puzzles ask you to dissect a given shape first and then rearrange the pieces into another shape. Other tiling puzzles ask you to dissect a given shape while fulfilling certain conditions. The two latter types of tiling puzzles are also called dissection puzzles.
Tiling puzzles may be made from wood, metal, cardboa... Whereas the word 'solitaire game' in context with a game originally simply meant that a game is designed to be played by one player only, the game 'solitaire', especially peg solitaire is such an old game that the word 'solitaire' has become closely associated with this special game.
Games that are similar to peg solitaire are therefore called solitaire-type puzzles.
'Solitaire-type puzzles' typically consist of
a board with holes or indentations and
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