Captivating Daily Puzzles To Cross Train Your Brain

Smartkit: Picture Puzzles

Fluent in Chinese?

chinatown-store-signs

Can you read the Chinatown store signs? If so, how long did it take before you realized you could?!

For many, there’ll be that cool moment when your brain suddenly shifts and goes,  “AHA!” :)

Another square peg in a round hole

teapot-word-picture-puzzle

Have you ever seen a vegetable in a teapot?

There are no hidden objects here; check out this earlier picture puzzle to see how to solve.

This one is challenging. Any answers submitted below will get revealed Monday or Tuesday

Car Troubles! A cartoon story picture puzzle

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The pictures above are in the wrong order. Can you logically figure out how to arrange them, so the cartoon strip tells a story?

Click here to view picture in higher resolution (printable also)

[ from the Smartkit archives July 2007]

The Big Totem Pole Puzzle

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(click on picture above to view in higher resolution-printable)

The Totem Pole shape consists of pink, green, and brown blocks. Which two color groups have the same total volumes of their respective blocks:

  • Pink and Green?
  • Pink and Brown?
  • or Green and Brown?

This is the 2nd in our “Totem Pole” series. The first visual-spatial brain exerciser can be found here!

Hidden in a Fingerprint….

hidden-object-friend-fingerprint

Something  friendly is hidden in the fingerprint below- can you find it?

Click on picture below to view FULL fingerprint

Submit your answers below, will reveal at the end of the week!

Earlier hidden object puzzles from Smartkit can be found here

Run-away-cat! A Picture Puzzle

spot-the-dog

This cat is in a hurry-he’s running away from another animal.

Can you spot it?

(answers submitted below will be unmasked in day or 2, thanks)

more  picture puzzles

more printable puzzles

Gyrus? A Mystery Photo

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It’s been 8 months since one of these has gone up-

Below, we’ve taken a relatively small section from a photo, and enlarged it.

What do you think the original object is?

click here to try some of the earlier mystery photos

feel free to submit your answer below; will unmask Wednesday, thanks.

Toblerone

Toblerone chocolate was created in 1908 in Bern Switzerland.  The packaging features a triangular prism box marked with red letters against a gold background, and a mountain peak to the left of the letters.

A bear, which servers as the symbol of Bern, is hidden somewhere on the box- can you find it? Submit in ‘comment section’ below, will reveal answers later on this week

Ever noticed?

Buried in this logo is an appropriate graphical symbol-have you ever noticed it before?

This puzzle will leave you… seeing stars!

Ok, I think you guys are really going to like this one!

Try to draw the form of a 5 pointed star that is larger than the others, and yet have it not touch one of them!

click on the image above to view in higher resolution. You may want to print this higher quality picture out when trying to solve this puzzle.