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Smartkit: Printable Puzzles and Printable Brain Teasers

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!

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The Smartkit Printable Puzzle Book

Inside the Smartkit Printable Puzzle Book PDF you will find:

  • High resolution colorful puzzles you can print out. Pick and choose which ones you want to print.
  • Large variety of puzzle types, many of which feature beautiful illustration and artwork.
  • Most are of medium difficulty.  Some are hard, a few are very hard.
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Hidden in a Fingerprint….

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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

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Run-away-cat! A Picture Puzzle

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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

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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.

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The Big Totem Pole Puzzle: Four Squares

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The Totem Pole shape consists of Orange, Red, and Blue blocks. Which volume is the smallest: the total volume of the Orange blocks,  the total volume of the Red blocks, or the total volume of the Blue blocks?

Peter Grabarchuk created this especially for Smartkit : )

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ABC Logic Puzzle: A little harder

(you may find it easier to print this out)

Here’s another ABC-type puzzle. You can find the instructions on how to solve here (look below the 3 pictures). You can also read comment #18 for further instructions.

[Shawn's answer showed up by accident for an hour, but is now masked.  Had 'comments' showing up automatically while gone the past few days, and forgot to reset with the upcoming round of challenges. ]

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Word Play

Mentally rotate the rings so that when they are all properly aligned, four 5-letter words appear.

Note: words are read from outer to inner ring.

you can try a similar challenge here

answers to be revealed in a day, thanks

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Whoa Kitty!

There are 7 shapes that are used twice (object doubles). Can you find them?

Click on image above for high resolution version

Not sure what to do? Here’s a similar picture puzzle you can try

(will hold answers until Friday before revealing, thanks)

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Scale Balance

Saw some comments show up recently on our first scale balance puzzle (hard!), which reminded me how long its been since we put one of these up. With that in mind:

How many triangles are need to balance scale 3?

 

feel free to submit your answers in the comment section below. Will unmask Thursday, thanks.

 

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