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Smartkit: Logic Puzzles

Conceptis Pic-a-Pix

Conceptis logic puzzles appear every day in hundreds of major newspapers and magazines across the world.  Below, you can try their neat Pic-a-Pix puzzle. Rules of play can be found here.

The Alpaca Riddle

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Can you think through and tease out logically what happened in the scenario below?-thanks to Roel for submitting!

Strimko for month of May

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Strimko-a fun  logic puzzle with 3 levels of difficulty-is created by Peter Grabarchuk and his family.

Every month or so we have a special flash version for Smartkit visitors, along with printable PDF sheets.

The object of the puzzle is to fill in the missing numbers, keeping in mind these simple rules:

  • each row must contain different numbers

Strimko #4, site news

Here’s the 4th Strimko set created for smartkit by the Grabarchuk’s.

And Congratulations to Peter Grabarchuk- Sterling recently published his book: Modern Classic Puzzles. Had a chance to do some of the puzzles, and they’re really good! The book starts off with easy ones, but they gradually progress in difficulty to very hard.

Finally, a new (hopefully improved!) smartkit website design is coming soon…

The Defective Ball

You have 39 balls in front of you. All but one are of equal weight. You do not know whether the defective ball is lighter or heavier than the normal balls. You are given a comparison balance. You can use the balance only 4 times. How would you find out which is the defective ball? Is it heavier or lighter?

Strimko set#3

Thanks to Peter Grabarchuk and his family for preparing these fun little logic puzzles just for Smartkit.

In the above game you will find 3 levels of difficulty, as well as 3 PDFs you can print out.

Strimko set #2

Strimko Set #1

Strimko Set#2

Back in December, we posted our 1st round of Strimko puzzles. Here’s set #2, created for Smartkit by the Grabarchuk family:

To review the rules: The object of the puzzle is to fill in the missing numbers, keeping in mind these simple rules:

  • each row must contain different numbers
  • each column must contain different numbers

Sunday in Macau

Lucy was born on a sunny Sunday in Hong Kong and celebrated her 7th birthday party on a rainy Sunday in Macau. How old was she in 1996?

Thanks to Bilbao (an untouchable 11 solver) for submitting

Also-have a nice surprise coming in 1-2 weeks as we bring back an old favorite (sequel…)

Untouchable 11: An online visual-spatial puzzle contest

A list of people who have solved so far:

Hard: Dan, Shawn, michaelC, LaDana, someone,Tumeke, Seelesscacti, Carl H., Bilbao, Suineg, Anka, EddB

Very Hard: michaelc, Bilbao, Tumeke, Seelesscacti, Carl H., EddB, someone, Suineg, Shawn

Impossibly Hard: someone, Carl H. (Carl has also done some great analysis, please read in the comment section below)

Concluding the week, Printable Logic Number Puzzle

Couple of things, then the puzzle :)

Was surprised and happy to see Smartkit recently featured in a PC Magazine article.