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

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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)

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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!

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

(you may find it easier to print this out)

Here’s another ABC-type puzzle. You can find the instructions on how to solve

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.

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

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Not sure what to do?

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?

What is the area of white (without the semi-circle moon shadows)?

Each square is one square inch.

How do you prove it? (pi=3.142)

Created for Smart-Kit by Forrest Frantz

For the teachers following, this definitely makes for a

click on  picture below to jump to higher resolution rebus picture puzzle

Haven’t done one of these in a while;

Which figure (a), (b), (c), (d) best completes the matrix?

Four musicians build their houses around a pond as shown below.

Afterward, four evil record label executives come and build houses around the musicians, as shown below.

The executives, however, want to have all the water to themselves- so they build a wall shuting the poor musicians off from the pond. How did they do it?

What’s wrong with this picture?

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Here are several earlier

Can you find 1 place where Pattern ‘A’ is hidden in the layout below? What about Pattern ‘B’- can you find 2 places where it is hidden?

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Using the letters in each flower petal (as well as the letter in the flower center, ‘E’), form six 7-letter words. The ‘E’ should not be used as the 1st letter of these words.

Can you form the bonus 7-letter word using the 1st letters of these words and begining with the central letter ‘E’?

A farmer at his death left a field containing 12 trees planted as shown below, and commanded in his Will that each of his 4 sons should have an equal share of land and an equal number of trees.

How was it divided?

(will unmask any submitted answers on Friday)

Can you divide the picture shown above by drawing 2 straight lines to produce 3 sections, each containing:

• Three red “X”s
• Two blue “+”s
• Two “-”s
• Two “%”s

If you have a printer, it may be easier to just print this one out. You can also try a similar

The layout above was taken from a famous Chinese book over 3000 years old. Can you figure out what the configuration represents? (in other words- What’s special about it?)
(Will unmask answers Friday)

Something is not right with this picture. Can you figure it out?

Will unmask submitted answers Friday, thanks. 

By starting at the correct letter in one of the words below, and then taking every third letter, a quotation from one of Shakespeare’s plays may be formed. Can you figure it out?

Can you figure out what numbers should fill the empty squares?

will reveal answers in 1-2 days, thanks.

For this problem, can you figure out what the missing number is?

will reveal submitted answers in 1-2 days.

The goal of this puzzle game is to position the riders so that it looks like each of them is riding a horse.

Note: Horses may not overlap.

Click on image below to play in flash.

For this puzzle, 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.

answers to be revealed in a day, thanks

The pictures below are in the wrong order. For this puzzle, can you arrange them so the cartoon strip tells a story?

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